Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, l…
fr, what did the Manager hit him with?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: hit · To what, where: Manager
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hit | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 hit | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hit | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Manager | det |
| 6 | Manager | Manager | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hit | nsubj |
| 7 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 hit | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hit | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 hit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past · do-support | fr | Manager | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient he=Result |
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 whip handle, hard, on the nose, and laughing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 handle | det |
| 2 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handle | compound |
| 3 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hard | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nose | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 nose | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 nose | det |
| 9 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hard | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 laughing | cc |
| 12 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 hard | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the handle, on his back side
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 handle | det |
| 2 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 handle | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 side | nmod:poss |
| 6 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | compound |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 handle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the whip handle, on the nose, twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 handle | det |
| 2 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handle | compound |
| 3 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 nose | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 nose | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nose | det |
| 7 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handle | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 handle | punct |
| 9 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 handle | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
the whip handle, on the nose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 handle | det |
| 2 | whip | whip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handle | compound |
| 3 | handle | handle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 handle | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 nose | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nose | det |
| 7 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 handle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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