Test 8 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Land of Toys, part 19: Pinocchio is tempted…

Okay, so the donkey started crying, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: donkey · What happens: start, cry

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	6 started	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 started	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 donkey	det
5	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 started	nsubj
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 started	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crying	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	6 started	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 started	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	the donkey						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the donkey not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, it was crying just like a boy, I'm not kidding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 kidding	advcl
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 boy	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 boy	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 kidding	nsubj
12	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 kidding	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 kidding	advmod
14	kidding	kid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	it	a boy					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
2	not kid	present · progressive	I						tree rules

Option 2

Yep, it was crying just like a boy, and it kept on crying until the driver got angry

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	just	just	ADV	_	9 boy	advmod
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 boy	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 boy	det
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kept	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 kept	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 kept	nsubj
13	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	conj
14	on	on	SCONJ	_	15 crying	mark
15	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 kept	advcl
16	until	until	SCONJ	_	19 got	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 driver	det
18	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 got	nsubj
19	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 kept	advcl
20	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	it	a boy		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic
2	keep	past	it			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	past	the driver		angry property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Yep, it was sobbing like a child, real talk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 sobbing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sobbing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sobbing	aux
5	sobbing	sob	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 child	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sobbing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 talk	punct
10	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 talk	amod
11	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 child	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sob	past · progressive	it					like a child	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yep, it was crying like a little kid, I swear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 crying	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crying	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 swear	advcl
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 kid	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kid	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kid	amod
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 swear	nsubj
12	swear	swear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past · progressive	it					like a little kid	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	swear	present	I						vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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