Test 10 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Land of Toys, part 19: Pinocchio is tempted…

Did the boys laugh when Pinocchio fell off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boys, Pinocchio · What happens: laugh, fall off

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1406 «Pinocchio, The Land of Toys, part 19: Pinocchio is tempted, refuses, then climbs onto a donkey and hears a warning whisper» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 boys	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 laugh	nsubj
4	laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 fell	advmod
6	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fell	nsubj
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 laugh	ccomp
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 fell	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 laugh	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present	the boys						tree rules
2	fall off	past	Pinocchio						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Totally, everyone was laughing hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	5 laughing	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Totally	punct
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 laughing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 laughing	aux
5	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 laughing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · progressive	everyone					hard, totally property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Totally, the whole group cracked up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	6 cracked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Totally	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 group	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 group	amod
5	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cracked	nsubj
6	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 cracked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crack up	participle	the whole group					totally property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Totally, the whole group cracked up and kept laughing until the wagon stopped moving

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Totally	totally	ADV	_	6 cracked	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Totally	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 group	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 group	amod
5	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cracked	nsubj
6	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 cracked	compound:prt
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cracked	conj
10	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 kept	xcomp
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	14 stopped	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wagon	det
13	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stopped	nsubj
14	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laughing	advcl
15	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	crack up	past	the whole group	totally property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past	the whole group not said here		tree rules
3	laugh	gerund	the whole group not said here		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stop	past	the wagon		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	move	gerund	the wagon not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, the whole crowd roared loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 roared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crowd	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 crowd	amod
5	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roared	nsubj
6	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	6 roared	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roar	past	the whole crowd					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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