Test 3 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two b…

Did the Little Man like the donkeys or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Little Man

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Man	det
3	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Man	amod
4	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 donkeys	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 donkeys	det
7	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Man	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 donkeys	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Little Man					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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

He sold them off really quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	2 sold	compound:prt
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 quickly	advmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 sold	advmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was all smiles and called them champs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smiles	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smiles	cop
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 smiles	det
4	smiles	smile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 called	cc
6	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 smiles	conj
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 called	obj
8	champs	champ	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	all smiles					tree rules
2	call	past	He not said here	smiles = smile					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He was sad to see them go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sad	cop
3	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sad	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	He		sad property	tree rules
2	see	to-infinitive	He not said here	them = they		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	them = they not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He cried a lot and hugged each donkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 cried	nsubj
2	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cried	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hugged	cc
6	hugged	hug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cried	conj
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 donkey	det
8	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hugged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	He	a lot					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Topic
2	hug	past	He not said here	each donkey					vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Co-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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