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

right, what was the last thing one lad tried to do to him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: one lad · What happens: be, try, do · To what, where: last thing, lad

This is test 14 · ★ 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	right	right	INTJ	_	7 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 right	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 lad	nummod
9	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tried	nsubj
10	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 thing	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tried	xcomp
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 do	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	past		the last thing		tree rules
2	try	past	one lad	the last thing not said here		tree rules
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	one lad not said here		lad	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

tie a rope round his wooden neck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rope	det
3	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tie	obj
4	round	round	ADP	_	7 neck	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neck	nmod:poss
6	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 neck	amod
7	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 tie	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	imperative	you not said here	a rope				round his wooden neck	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Patient

Option 2

pull his hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hair	nmod:poss
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	his hair					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

pull his nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nose	nmod:poss
3	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	his nose					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme

Option 4

pull his nose off and throw it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nose	nmod:poss
3	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pull	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	1 pull	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 throw	cc
6	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 pull	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 throw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull off	imperative	you not said here	his nose					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Eventuality
2	throw	infinitive	you not said here	nose					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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