Test 8 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two b…
Could Pinocchio do a backflip in the circus?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Pinocchio · What happens: do · To what, where: backflip, circus
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 do | aux |
| 2 | Pinocchio | Pinocchio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 backflip | det |
| 5 | backflip | backflip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 circus | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 circus | det |
| 8 | circus | circus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 do | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | Pinocchio | a backflip | the circus | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backflip=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
Yep, he could do a flip in the air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 do | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yep | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 flip | det |
| 7 | flip | flip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 air | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 air | det |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | could | he | a flip | the air | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flip=Eventuality |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he could stand on his head
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stand | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stand | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stand | aux |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 head | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 head | nmod:poss |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stand | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | could | he | his head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location |
Option 3
Nah, he could not
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 could | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 could | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 could | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nah, he could only hop around
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 hop | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hop | nsubj |
| 4 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hop | aux |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 hop | advmod |
| 6 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | around | around | ADV | _ | 6 hop | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop around | could | he | around property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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