Test 10 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to t…

Ayy, why did Pinocchio refuse to beg?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: refuse, not beg

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1400 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to the shore, dives in to save Geppetto, and reaches the Land of the Busy Bees» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ayy	Ayy	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 refuse	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ayy	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 refuse	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 refuse	aux
5	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 refuse	nsubj
6	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 beg	mark
8	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 refuse	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 refuse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past · do-support	Pinocchio					Ayy vocative	vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not beg speech: request	to-infinitive	Pinocchio not said here						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1

his dad forbade him to ask

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 forbade	nsubj
3	forbade	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 forbade	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 ask	mark
6	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 forbade	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	past	his dad	him = he					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	his dad not said here						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

his dad said only the old or sick beg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	9 beg	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 beg	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beg	amod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 sick	cc
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
9	beg	beg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	his dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he thought begging was shameful for boys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 shameful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shameful	cop
5	shameful	shameful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 boys	case
7	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 shameful	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	gerund			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
3	is	past		for boys; shameful property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

his dad had taught him that only the very sick and old may ever ask for coins

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taught	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taught	aux
4	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taught	obj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 ask	mark
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 sick	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sick	det
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 sick	advmod
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ask	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 old	cc
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sick	conj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 ask	aux
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 ask	advmod
15	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 taught	advcl
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 coins	case
17	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		his dad	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	may					ever	for coins	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1400-pg500-part13/t10/