Test 10 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 18: Pinocchio…

How many toast slices was the Fairy making, tho?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many toast slices · What happens: be, tho · To what, where: Fairy making

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1405 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 18: Pinocchio is kept waiting, kicks the door, and is tempted away by Lamp-Wick» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slices	amod
3	toast	toast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slices	compound
4	slices	slice	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 making	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 making	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 making	det
7	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 making	amod
8	making	making	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tho	punct
10	tho	tho	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 making	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 making	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	many toast slices	the Fairy making					tree rules
2	tho	infinitive							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

Four hundred slices, all buttered on both sides, for the whole class

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 slices	nummod
3	slices	slice	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 buttered	punct
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 buttered	advmod
6	buttered	butter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 slices	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 sides	case
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sides	det
9	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 buttered	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 class	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 class	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 class	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 class	amod
14	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slices	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	butter	participle		hundred slices and the whole class not said here		both sides		all property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Four hundred, buttered both sides, and cut into little triangles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 buttered	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 buttered	punct
4	buttered	butter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sides	det
6	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buttered	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cut	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 cut	cc
9	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 buttered	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 triangles	case
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 triangles	amod
12	triangles	triangle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cut	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	butter	past		Four hundred					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Destination
2	cut	participle						into little triangles	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into triangle=Patient

Option 3

Three hundred, buttered once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 buttered	punct
4	buttered	butter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 hundred	acl
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 buttered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	butter	participle						once property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Four hundred, buttered both sides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 hundred	compound
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 buttered	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hundred	punct
4	buttered	butter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sides	det
6	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buttered	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	butter	past	Four hundred	both sides					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Destination

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