Test 9 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Land of Toys, part 19: Pinocchio is tempted…

Wait, how many boys were on that wagon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, many boys · What happens: wait, be · To what, where: wagon

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	9 wagon	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boys	amod
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wagon	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wagon	cop
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 wagon	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 wagon	det
9	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
10	?	?	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	past	many boys			that 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 · ← Mova's choice

A hundred and more, all packed like sardines in a tin with no room to move at all

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 packed	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 more	cc
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 hundred	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hundred	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 packed	nsubj
7	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 sardines	case
9	sardines	sardine	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 packed	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 tin	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tin	det
12	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 packed	obl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 room	case
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 room	det
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tin	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 move	mark
17	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 packed	advcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	participle · passive		a hundred		a tin with no room		like sardines	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in tin=Destination
2	move	to-infinitive				all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 2

Over a hundred, squeezed like fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Over	over	ADP	_	3 hundred	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 squeezed	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 squeezed	punct
5	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 fish	case
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 squeezed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	participle · passive		a hundred				like fish	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

About a hundred, all crammed in tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	3 hundred	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hundred	det
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crammed	punct
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 crammed	advmod
6	crammed	cram	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 hundred	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 tight	case
8	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 crammed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cram	participle				tight		all property	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in tight=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A hundred and more, all packed like sardines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hundred	det
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 packed	nsubj:pass
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 more	cc
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 hundred	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hundred	punct
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 packed	nsubj
7	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 sardines	case
9	sardines	sardine	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 packed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pack	participle · passive		a hundred				like sardines	vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: subject=Destination

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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