Test 7 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase,…

Wait, what did Alidoro promise for later?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Alidoro · What happens: wait, promise

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 promise	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 promise	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 promise	aux
5	Alidoro	Alidoro	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 promise	nsubj
6	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 later	case
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 promise	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	Alidoro						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent what=Theme for late=Goal

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

To return the favour if he could

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 return	mark
2	return	return	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 favour	det
4	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 return	obj
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 could	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 could	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 return	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	to-infinitive		the favour					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Theme

Option 2

Be friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	infinitive	friends						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

To bark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bark	mark
2	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	to-infinitive							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

To keep the boy safe from the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sea	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive			the boy	the sea		safe property	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer boy=Beneficiary from sea=Eventuality

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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