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title: ngl, what's the puppet supposed to be able to do? — Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1:… · tree and pragmatics
description: ngl, what's the puppet supposed to be able to do? Test 6 · ★ 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; Mova's
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# Test 6 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Piece of Wood, part 1: a wood that talks, t…

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ngl, what's the puppet supposed to be able to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** ngl · **What happens:** be, suppose, do · **To what, where:** puppet

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:t6:1
# text = ngl, what's the puppet supposed to be able to do?
1	ngl	ngl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	puppet	puppet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
7	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | ngl | the puppet |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suppose** | participle |  | the puppet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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sing, dance and play the flute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:t6:o1:1
# text = sing, dance and play the flute
1	sing	sing	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	dance	dance	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	play	play	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	flute	flute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **dance** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **play** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the flute |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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dance, fence, turn somersaults and carry bread and wine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:t6:o2:1
# text = dance, fence, turn somersaults and carry bread and wine
1	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | infinitive | dance and fence | somersaults |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** | present | dance and fence *not said here* | bread and wine |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dance, fence and turn somersaults while singing loudly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:t6:o3:1
# text = dance, fence and turn somersaults while singing loudly
1	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
9	loudly	loudly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | dance and fence | somersaults |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | dance and fence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loudly *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dance, fence and turn somersaults

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1388-pg500-part1:t6:o4:1
# text = dance, fence and turn somersaults
1	dance	dance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	fence	fence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present | dance and fence | somersaults |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme |

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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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