Test 10 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio…

Did Pinocchio go soft on Eugene or still be a toughie?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: go, be · To what, where: toughie

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1402 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio fights his schoolmates and a boy falls as if dead» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 go	nsubj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 go	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Eugene	case
6	Eugene	Eugene	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 soft	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 toughie	cc
8	still	still	ADV	_	11 toughie	advmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 toughie	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 toughie	det
11	toughie	toughie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Eugene	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	Pinocchio					soft property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	infinitive	Pinocchio not said here	a toughie			still		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

He ignored him quietly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	nsubj
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ignored	obj
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	2 ignored	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	He	him = he				quietly property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He felt bad and carried him all the way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 felt	nsubj
2	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 felt	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 carried	cc
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 felt	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl:unmarked
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	He					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	carry	past	He not said here	him = he				all way obl:unmarked	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He sobbed and wet his hanky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sobbed	nsubj
2	sobbed	sob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wet	cc
4	wet	wet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sobbed	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hanky	nmod:poss
6	hanky	hanky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wet	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	past	He						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wet	past	He not said here	his hanky					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hanky=Patient

Option 4

He sat with him and read aloud from his book

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 read	cc
6	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	conj
7	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	6 read	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 book	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 book	nmod:poss
10	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	He			his book		with him = he	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	read	present	He not said here					aloud property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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