Test 9 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, l…

that vet guy said what about him, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: vet guy · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 guy	det
2	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 guy	compound
3	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 said	ccomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 what	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	that vet guy						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

he'll never walk right again, the vet said that

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 walk	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 walk	advmod
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
6	again	again	ADV	_	4 walk	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vet	det
9	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 said	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	future	he				again	right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the vet						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he'll recover next 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	3 recover	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 recover	aux
3	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 week	amod
5	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recover	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recover	future	he				week		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

he'll be lame forever, sadly, bro

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 lame	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lame	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lame	cop
4	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 lame	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sadly	punct
7	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	4 lame	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bro	punct
9	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lame	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	he					forever, lame property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he'll be lame forever

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 lame	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lame	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 lame	cop
4	lame	lame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	forever	forever	ADV	_	4 lame	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	future	he					forever, lame property	tree rules

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