Test 13 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio…

the lads were off their trolley, but what did they call him for being so clever?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lads · What happens: be, call · To what, where: trolley · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lads	det
2	lads	lad	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trolley	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trolley	cop
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 trolley	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 trolley	nmod:poss
6	trolley	trolley	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 call	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 call	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 call	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 call	aux
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 call	nsubj
12	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trolley	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 call	obj
14	for	for	ADP	_	17 clever	case
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 clever	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 clever	advmod
17	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 call	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 trolley	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the lads		off lads's trolley	tree rules
2	call	past · do-support	lads = lad	lads's trolley		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Result
3	is	gerund			clever property	tree rules

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

Dr. Clever Clogs from the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Clever	nmod:desc
2	Clever	Clever	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Clogs	compound
3	Clogs	clog	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 village	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Clogs	nmod

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

Option 2

Dr. Know-it-all the Marionette

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Know	nsubj
2	Know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 it	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Know	obj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Marionette	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 Marionette	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Marionette	det
8	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Know	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	infinitive	Dr.	it				all Marionette obl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dr. Know-all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Know	nsubj
2	Know	know	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 all	punct
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 Know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	infinitive	Dr.	all					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus

Option 4

Mr. Know-it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Know	nmod:desc
2	Know	Know	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Know	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Know	appos

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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