Test 5 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two b…
Did Pinocchio like the hay, or was he being extra?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Pinocchio
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Pinocchio | Pinocchio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 hay | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hay | det |
| 5 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 extra | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 extra | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 extra | cop |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 extra | nsubj |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 extra | cop |
| 11 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Did | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Pinocchio | like the hay | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinocchio=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Pinocchio | extra property | 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 · ✓ the right answer
He was being extra and wouldn't eat it
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 extra | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 extra | cop |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 extra | cop |
| 4 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 eat | cc |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 eat | aux |
| 7 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 eat | advmod |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 extra | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 eat | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | extra property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not eat | would | He not said here | it | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
Option 2
He was just picky and only wanted fresh bread from the cook
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 picky | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picky | cop |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 picky | advmod |
| 4 | picky | picky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 wanted | cc |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 wanted | advmod |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 picky | conj |
| 8 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bread | amod |
| 9 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 cook | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cook | det |
| 12 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | picky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | He not said here | fresh bread | the cook | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bread=Theme |
Option 3
He pretended to like it at first
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 pretended | nsubj |
| 2 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 like | mark |
| 4 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 pretended | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 like | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 first | case |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 like | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | past | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | like | to-infinitive | He not said here | it | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
Option 4
He was being extra and refused to eat the hay for a whole week
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 extra | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 extra | cop |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 extra | cop |
| 4 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 refused | cc |
| 6 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 extra | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 eat | mark |
| 8 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 refused | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hay | det |
| 10 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eat | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 week | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 week | det |
| 13 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 week | amod |
| 14 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eat | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | extra property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | refuse | past | He not said here | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not eat | to-infinitive | He not said here | the hay | week | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient |
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