Test 6 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 18: Pinocchio…

What did the Fairy say to him, like, first thing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fairy · What happens: say · To what, where: him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 say	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
4	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 say	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 thing	punct
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 thing	advmod
12	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Fairy		him = he				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to he=Recipient

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

She said be good now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 good	cop
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 good	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	infinitive					now	good property	tree rules

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

She forgave him this time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgave	nsubj
2	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgave	obj
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgave	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	past	She	him = he			time		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

She told him to sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sleep	mark
5	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	She		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sleep not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

She forgave him this time, but warned him it was the last

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgave	nsubj
2	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgave	obj
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 time	det
5	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 forgave	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 warned	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 warned	cc
8	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 forgave	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 warned	obj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 last	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 last	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 last	det
13	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 warned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	past	She	him = he		time		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	warn speech: warn	past	She not said here		him = he			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	is	past	it				last property	tree rules

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