Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to s…

Wait, did the Cat really go blind or was he faking?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Cat · What happens: wait, do, go, fake · To what, where: Cat

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cat	det
5	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
6	really	really	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 Cat	acl
8	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 faking	cc
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 faking	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 faking	nsubj
12	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 did	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past		the Cat		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Eventuality
3	go	infinitive	the Cat not said here		blind property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fake	past · progressive	Cat			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

He faked it for years, then really went blind

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 faked	nsubj
2	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 faked	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 years	case
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 faked	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 went	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 went	advmod
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 went	advmod
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 faked	conj
10	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past	He	it			year		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	go	past	He not said here				then	blind property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He pretended to sleep at the inn all night

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 pretended	nsubj
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 sleep	mark
4	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pretended	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 inn	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 inn	det
7	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	obl
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 night	det
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pretended	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	He				night		tree rules
2	sleep	to-infinitive	He not said here			the inn			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He faked it for a few weeks, then he was really blind after a fight at the inn

The tree, 18 words

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 faked	nsubj
2	faked	fake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 faked	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 weeks	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 weeks	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 weeks	amod
7	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 faked	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 blind	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 blind	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 blind	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 blind	cop
12	really	really	ADV	_	13 blind	advmod
13	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 faked	parataxis
14	after	after	ADP	_	16 fight	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fight	det
16	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 blind	obl
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 inn	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 inn	det
19	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 faked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past	He	it		the inn	week		vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	past	he				after a fight; then	blind property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He just closed his eyes for a while

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 closed	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 closed	advmod
3	closed	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 closed	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 while	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 while	det
8	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	past	He	his eyes			while		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient

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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