Test 9 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio…

what did he say he always tells, yeah, the truth or lies?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: say, tell, lie · To what, where: truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tells	nsubj
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 tells	advmod
7	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 truth	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	12 truth	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 truth	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 truth	det
12	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tells	obj
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 lies	cc
14	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tells	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	he			tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	he	the truth	always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient
3	lie	present	he not said here			vn assuming_position-50 «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

nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

truth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «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.

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