Test 7 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio…

Did the books hit the sea, or did they get nicked?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: books · What happens: hit, nick · To what, where: sea, books

This is test 7 · ★ 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=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 books	det
3	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sea	det
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nicked	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nicked	cc
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 nicked	aux
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 nicked	nsubj:pass
11	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 nicked	aux:pass
12	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hit	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past · do-support	the books	the sea					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme
2	nick	past · passive · do-support		books = book					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

They got nicked

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	They						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	nick	participle	They not said here						vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2

They splashed and sank down

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 splashed	nsubj
2	splashed	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sank	cc
4	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 splashed	conj
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 sank	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash	past	They						vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sink down	past	They not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

They got swept away fast

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	3 swept	nsubj:pass
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swept	aux:pass
3	swept	sweep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 swept	advmod
5	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 swept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sweep away	past · passive		They				away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They hit the sea and vanished

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 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sea	det
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hit	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 vanished	cc
6	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	They	the sea					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme
2	vanish	past	They not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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