Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two b…

Ngl, what was the dumbest part of the story?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl · What happens: be · To what, where: dumbest part

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 part	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 part	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 part	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 part	det
6	dumbest	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 part	amod
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ngl	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 story	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Ngl	the dumbest part				of the story	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

The donkeys eating hay happily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 donkeys	det
2	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eating	nsubj
3	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eating	obj
5	happily	happily	ADV	_	3 eating	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	the donkeys	hay				happily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The two boys braying like donkeys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boys	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 boys	nummod
3	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	braying	bray	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 boys	acl
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 donkeys	case
6	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 braying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bray	gerund	the two boys not said here					like donkeys	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

The Land of Toys

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Land	det
2	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Toys	case
4	Toys	toy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Land	nmod

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

Option 4

The boys sneaking off to school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boys	det
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	sneaking	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 boys	acl
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 sneaking	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sneaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneak off	gerund	the boys not said here			school			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to school=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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