Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to t…

No cap, what was Geppetto's boat compared to?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be, compare · To what, where: boat

This is test 4 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 compared	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 boat	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 boat	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 boat	cop
6	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 boat	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Geppetto	case
8	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	appos
9	compared	compare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 compared	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 compared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	no cap	Geppetto's boat					tree rules
2	compare	past	no cap						vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

a barrel floating on the open sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 barrel	det
2	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 barrel	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
6	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	gerund	a barrel not said here			the open sea			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a nutshell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 nutshell	det
2	nutshell	nutshell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a wooden tub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tub	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tub	amod
3	tub	tub	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a small plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plate	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 plate	amod
3	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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.

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