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title: By what name did the boys of the neighbourhood address Geppetto? — Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1:… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what name did the boys of the neighbourhood address Geppetto? Exam question 2 of lesson 1388 «Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, two old men fight, a puppet is named» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, t…

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By what name did the boys of the neighbourhood address Geppetto?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** boys

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1388 «Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, two old men fight, a puppet is named» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1388-pg500-part1/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:e2:1
# text = By what name did the boys of the neighbourhood address Geppetto?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	address	address	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the boys of the neighbourhood address |  |  |  | by name | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Eventuality |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Polendina the Yellow Wig Man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:e2:o1:1
# text = Polendina the Yellow Wig Man
1	Polendina	Polendina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Wig	Wig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Polendina Gialla of the square

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:e2:o2:1
# text = Polendina Gialla of the square
1	Polendina	Polendina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Gialla	Gialla	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	square	square	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Polendina

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:e2:o3:1
# text = Polendina
1	Polendina	Polendina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Polendena

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:e2:o4:1
# text = Polendena
1	Polendena	Polendena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**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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