Test 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two b…

Ayo, what did the Little Man do with lazy boys?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little Man · What happens: do

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1408 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two boys turn into donkeys and are sold» 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	Ayo	Ayo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 do	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ayo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Man	det
6	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Man	amod
7	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 boys	case
10	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boys	amod
11	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the Little Man					with lazy boys; Ayo vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Sent them off to a school far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sent	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Sent	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 school	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 school	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sent	obl
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	1 Sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	past		them = they		a school		away property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to school=Destination

Option 2

Sold them off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sold	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Sold	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell off	past		them = they					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Took them off to the Land of Toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Took	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Took	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Land	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Land	det
6	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Took	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Toys	case
8	Toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Land	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past		them = they				to the Land of Toys	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sent them home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sent	obj
3	home	home	ADV	_	1 Sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past		them = they				home property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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.

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