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title: By what name did Geppetto finally christen the wooden figure? — Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1:… · tree and pragmatics
description: By what name did Geppetto finally christen the wooden figure? Exam question 4 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 ea
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# Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, t…

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By what name did Geppetto finally christen the wooden figure?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** name · **What happens:** do, christen · **To what, where:** Geppetto, wooden figure

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:e4:1
# text = By what name did Geppetto finally christen the wooden figure?
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	christen	christen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | name | Geppetto |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent geppetto=Eventuality |
| 2 | **christen** | present |  | the wooden figure |  |  |  | finally *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Pinocchio

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:e4:o1:1
# text = Pinocchio
1	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Pinocchia

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:e4:o2:1
# text = Pinocchia
1	Pinocchia	Pinocchia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Mush

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:e4:o3:1
# text = Mush
1	Mush	mush	NOUN	NN	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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Polly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:e4:o4:1
# text = Polly
1	Polly	polly	NOUN	NN	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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