Test 14 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to s…

Bruh, what proverb did Pinocchio fling at the Cat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: proverb · What happens: do · To what, where: Pinocchio fling

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1412 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to shore, the Fox and Cat beg, milk for a penny» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	obj
4	proverb	proverb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 fling	compound
7	fling	fling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 Cat	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Cat	det
10	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	proverb	Pinocchio fling				at the Cat	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

Lies have short legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legs	amod
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Lies	short legs					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 2

Crime never really pays in life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pays	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 pays	advmod
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 pays	advmod
4	pays	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pays	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pay	present	Crime			life			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Crime does not pay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pay	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pay	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 pay	advmod
4	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pay	present · do-support	Crime						vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Stolen money never bears fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stolen	obj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 fruit	advmod
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fruit	compound
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stolen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	participle		money				bears fruit obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme

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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