Test 6 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio in the Shark, part 24: Pinocchio find…
how did the Shark's sneeze mess things up?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sneeze, Shark · What happens: do, mess up, sneeze · To what, where: things
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 did | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Shark | det |
| 4 | Shark | Shark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sneeze | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Shark | case |
| 6 | sneeze | sneeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mess | nsubj |
| 7 | mess | mess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | parataxis |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mess | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 mess | compound:prt |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | mess up | present | the Shark's sneeze | things | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sneeze | the Shark | nom sneeze «state intransitive»: poss=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
They got bopped by a wave
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 | 3 bopped | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bopped | aux:pass |
| 3 | bopped | bop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 wave | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wave | det |
| 6 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bopped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bop | past · passive | a wave | They | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
They got tossed back in his gut
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 | 3 tossed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tossed | aux:pass |
| 3 | tossed | toss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 tossed | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 gut | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gut | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gut | gut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tossed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss back | past · passive | They | his gut | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme in gut=Destination |
Option 3
They got blasted out the sea
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 | 3 blasted | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blasted | aux:pass |
| 3 | blasted | blast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 blasted | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sea | det |
| 6 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blasted | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blast out | past · passive | They | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient sea=Result |
Option 4
They got spit up in a cave
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 | 3 spit | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 spit | advcl |
| 3 | spit | spit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 spit | compound:prt |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 cave | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cave | det |
| 7 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | They not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | spit up | present | They | a cave | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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