Test 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio in the Shark, part 24: Pinocchio find…

what did the Pigeon tell Pinocchio about dad?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Pigeon · What happens: tell · To what, where: Pinocchio · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1411 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio in the Shark, part 24: Pinocchio finds Geppetto alive inside the Shark and they plan their escape» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 tell	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pigeon	det
4	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	nsubj
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 dad	case
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the Pigeon		Pinocchio			about dad	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient pinocchio=Topic

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

He went to school

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	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	He			school			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to school=Initial_Location

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He got a new house

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	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 house	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 house	amod
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	a new house					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He built a boat, fam

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	2 built	nsubj
2	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 boat	det
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 built	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fam	punct
6	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	He	a boat and fam					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Product

Option 4

He got a job

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	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 job	det
4	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He	a job					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer job=Stimulus

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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