Test 13 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio in the Shark, part 24: Pinocchio find…

yo, why was that ship's load such a big deal?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: load

This is test 13 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 load	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 load	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 load	cop
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 load	mark
6	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 load	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 ship	case
8	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 deal	det:predet
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 deal	det
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 deal	amod
12	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 load	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 load	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		ship's load				such big deal nmod	tree rules

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

They gave it to the Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 Fox	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fox	det
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	They	it	the Fox				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to fox=Recipient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They had food for two years

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 years	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 years	nummod
6	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	food			year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3

They sold it for gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sold	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 gold	case
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	They	it				for gold	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for gold=Asset

Option 4

They used it for jail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 used	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 jail	case
5	jail	jail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	They	it				for jail	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent it=Theme for jail=Eventuality

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