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title: wait, was the wood fancy or just trash for the stove? — Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1:… · tree and pragmatics
description: wait, was the wood fancy or just trash for the stove? Test 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 each option; Mo
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# Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, t…

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wait, was the wood fancy or just trash for the stove?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, be, trash · **To what, where:** wood fancy

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This is test 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:t4:1
# text = wait, was the wood fancy or just trash for the stove?
1	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	trash	trash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the wood fancy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **trash** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the stove | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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just firewood for the stove and nothing more special at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:t4:o1:1
# text = just firewood for the stove and nothing more special at all
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	conj	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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good oak for a new door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:t4:o2:1
# text = good oak for a new door
1	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
just firewood for the stove

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:t4:o3:1
# text = just firewood for the stove
1	just	just	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	firewood	firewood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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fancy carved wood meant for a royal table in the palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:t4:o4:1
# text = fancy carved wood meant for a royal table in the palace
1	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	carved	carve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	meant	mean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | participle |  | fancy carved wood *not said here* |  |  |  | for a royal table in the palace | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot for table=Attribute |

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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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