Test 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio…

Do you reckon the boys would have owned up if they'd stayed?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, boys · What happens: reckon, own up, stay · To what, where: boys

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckon	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 reckon	nsubj
3	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 boys	det
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 owned	nsubj:pass
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 owned	aux
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 owned	aux
8	owned	own	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 reckon	parataxis
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 owned	compound:prt
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 stayed	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stayed	nsubj
12	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 stayed	aux
13	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 owned	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	present · do-support	you		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	own up	would · perfect · passive		the boys	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	stay a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	boys = boy		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

Probably not, they just bolted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Probably	probably	ADV	_	6 bolted	advmod
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 bolted	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bolted	punct
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bolted	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 bolted	advmod
6	bolted	bolt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bolt	past	they					probably property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, maybe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 maybe	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

No, they'd have hidden it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 hidden	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hidden	nsubj:pass
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hidden	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 hidden	aux
6	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hidden	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	would · perfect · passive		they					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, they would have said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	aux
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	would · perfect	they						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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