Test 1 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio…

mate, how much dosh did the Bricklayer offer for lugging his plaster?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: do, lug · To what, where: Bricklayer offer, plaster

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1401 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio begs for pennies, refuses hard work, and is recognised by the Fairy» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dosh	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dosh	amod
5	dosh	dosh	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 mate	conj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 offer	det
8	Bricklayer	bricklayer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 offer	compound
9	offer	offer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 lugging	mark
11	lugging	lug	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 did	advcl
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 plaster	nmod:poss
13	plaster	plaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lugging	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	mate and much dosh	the Bricklayer offer					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Eventuality
2	lug	gerund	mate and much dosh not said here	his plaster					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plaster=Theme

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

a few sovereigns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sovereigns	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sovereigns	amod
3	sovereigns	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

three quid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 quid	nummod
2	quid	quid	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

five pennies and a bag of crisps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pennies	nummod
2	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bag	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bag	det
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pennies	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 crisps	case
7	crisps	crisp	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bag	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

five pennies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pennies	nummod
2	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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