Test 2 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio…

Why'd those boys ditch school, like, for real?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys · What happens: ditch · To what, where: school

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 ditch	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 ditch	aux
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 boys	det
4	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ditch	nsubj
5	ditch	ditch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ditch	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	5 ditch	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 real	case
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ditch	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 ditch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ditch	would	that boys	school					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 · ✓ the right answer

They wanted to mess with Pinocchio

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 mess	mark
4	mess	mess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 Pinocchio	case
6	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 mess	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	They						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	mess not said to happen	to-infinitive	They not said here					with Pinocchio	tree rules

Option 2

They fancied a day off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancied	obl:unmarked
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 fancied	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy off	past	They				day		vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Just fancied it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 fancied	advmod
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fancied	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past		it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

To go fishing in the bay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 go	mark
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fishing	fish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 go	xcomp
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 bay	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bay	det
6	bay	bay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fishing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	to-infinitive							vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	fish	gerund				the bay			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in bay=Location

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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