Test 14 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 18: Pinocchio…

So what was the Snail's excuse, fam?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: excuse

This is test 14 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 what	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 excuse	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 excuse	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Snail	det
5	Snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 excuse	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Snail	case
7	excuse	excuse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 excuse	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 excuse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Snail's excuse and fam					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

The stairs were too steep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stairs	det
2	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 steep	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 steep	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 steep	advmod
5	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stairs					steep property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Snails are never in a hurry, they take their time always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurry	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hurry	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 hurry	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hurry	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hurry	det
6	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 take	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	nsubj
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hurry	parataxis
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 time	nmod:poss
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 take	obj
12	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Snails			a hurry			tree rules
2	take	present	Snails = snail				time	always property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Her shell was too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shell	nmod:poss
2	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heavy	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 heavy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Her shell					heavy property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Snails are never in a hurry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snails	snail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurry	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hurry	cop
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 hurry	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hurry	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hurry	det
6	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	Snails			a hurry			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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