Test 5 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Land of Toys, part 19: Pinocchio is tempted…

Wait, why was the wagon so quiet?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: wagon

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wagon	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 wagon	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wagon	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wagon	det
6	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 quiet	advmod
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wagon	amod
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	is a	past		the wagon					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 right answer

Its wheels were wrapped in straw and rags

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wheels	nmod:poss
2	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wrapped	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wrapped	aux:pass
4	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 straw	case
6	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wrapped	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rags	cc
8	rags	rag	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 straw	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	past · passive		Its wheels		straw and rags			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in straw=Destination

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Its wheels were made of soft wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wheels	nmod:poss
2	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wood	amod
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		Its wheels				of soft wood	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

Its wheels were coated in thick grease

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wheels	nmod:poss
2	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 coated	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coated	aux:pass
4	coated	coat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 grease	case
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grease	amod
7	grease	grease	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coated	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	coat	past · passive		Its wheels				in thick grease	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in grease=Theme

Option 4

The road was covered with soft moss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	aux:pass
4	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 moss	case
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moss	amod
7	moss	moss	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		the road				with soft moss	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with moss=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1406-pg500-part19/t5/