Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio…

Did the tall kid say they were seven, or like, nine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tall kid, they · What happens: say, be · To what, where: seven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	5 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kid	det
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 kid	amod
4	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 seven	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 seven	cop
8	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 say	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 nine	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 nine	cc
11	like	like	INTJ	_	13 nine	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
13	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 seven	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the tall kid						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	seven					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 · ← Mova's choice

Just a couple, two maybe, really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 couple	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 couple	det
3	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 two	punct
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 couple	appos
6	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	3 couple	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 couple	punct
8	really	really	ADV	_	3 couple	advmod

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

Option 2

Nine, but two of them stayed behind at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 stayed	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 stayed	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 stayed	cc
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 stayed	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 two	nmod
7	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	7 stayed	advmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 home	case
10	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	two of them	Nine		home		behind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location

Option 3

Nine of us in the group

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 us	case
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Nine	nmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 group	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 group	det
6	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nine	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Seven, there's seven of us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 seven	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 's	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 's	expl
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 seven	cop
5	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 seven	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Seven seven				of us	tree rules

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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