Test 3 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, l…

ngl, was the sea trick real or fake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl sea · What happens: be, trick · To what, where: ngl sea

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1409 «Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, lame and sold, is tossed into the sea and comes back a puppet.» 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	5 sea	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sea	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sea	det
5	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 trick	nsubj
6	trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trick	xcomp
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 fake	cc
9	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 real	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ngl sea					tree rules
2	trick	present	the ngl sea					real property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

the sea did it, Pinocchio says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sea	acl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sea	punct
6	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 says	nsubj
7	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the sea						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nobody knows, the story says

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 knows	nsubj
2	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 knows	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	nobody						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	say speech: assert	present	the story						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

fake, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fake	punct
3	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	1 fake	advmod

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

Option 4

the sea made it, he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sea	det
2	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the sea	it					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	sea						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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