Test 2 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two b…

Wait, so how'd they turn into donkeys?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, they · What happens: wait, turn

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 turn	advmod
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 turn	advmod
5	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
7	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 donkeys	case
9	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turn	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	turn	present	they					into donkeys result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into donkey=Result

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

Some grumpy old wizard cast a spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 cast	nsubj
2	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cast	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cast	amod
4	wizard	wizard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cast	amod
5	cast	cast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 spell	det
7	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cast	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They laughed so hard they fell and changed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 laughed	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 changed	cc
8	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	They	hard property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fall	past	they		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	change	past	they not said here		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

They ate too much hay and got sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hay	amod
5	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	They	much hay					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient
2	get	past	They not said here					sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

They wished for it and the Little Man granted their wish right away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	nsubj
2	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wished	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 granted	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Man	det
7	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Man	amod
8	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 granted	nsubj
9	granted	grant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wished	conj
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wish	nmod:poss
11	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 granted	obj
12	right	right	ADV	_	13 away	advmod
13	away	away	ADV	_	9 granted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	past	They		for it	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for it=Theme
2	grant	past	the Little Man	their wish	away property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent wish=Theme
3	wish		their = they			nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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