Test 6 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two b…

Bro, did the whip thing actually happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro, whip thing · What happens: do, happen · To what, where: whip thing

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 happen	advmod
8	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	acl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the whip thing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality
2	happen	infinitive	the whip thing not said here					actually property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yep, he got hit across the legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	aux:pass
5	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 legs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 legs	det
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past · passive		he		the legs			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

Option 2

Yep, he got kicked in the head

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 kicked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kicked	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kicked	aux:pass
5	kicked	kick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 head	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 head	det
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past · passive		he		the head			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in head=Location

Option 3

Nah, they just yelled at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 yelled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 yelled	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 yelled	advmod
5	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 yelled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	they					at him = he	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus

Option 4

Yep, he got hit across the legs and back many times that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hit	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hit	aux:pass
5	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 legs	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 legs	det
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hit	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 back	cc
10	back	back	ADV	_	5 hit	conj
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 times	amod
12	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hit	obl:unmarked
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 times	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past · passive		he		the legs	time		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

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