Test 6 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase,…

So why did Pinocchio save the dog, fr?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: save · To what, where: dog

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1403 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase, a rescued dog, and a net full of fish» 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 save	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 save	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 save	aux
4	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 save	nsubj
5	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 save	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fr	punct
9	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dog	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 save	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past · do-support	Pinocchio	the dog and fr					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=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

Because it felt like the right thing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 felt	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 thing	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 thing	det
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thing	amod
7	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	it					like the right thing	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like thing=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

His dad said good deeds are never lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 deeds	amod
5	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lost	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 lost	aux:pass
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 lost	advmod
8	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	His dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not lose	present · passive		good deeds					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 3

Just because

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	2 because	advmod
2	because	because	SCONJ	_	root	root

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

Option 4

His dad always told him to be kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 dad	nmod:poss
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 told	advmod
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	8 kind	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 kind	cop
8	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	His dad		him = he			always property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive						kind property	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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1403-pg500-part16/t6/