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title: fr, did the Carabineer hold onto Pinocchio by the ears? — Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking C… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, did the Carabineer hold onto Pinocchio by the ears? Test 6 · ★ of lesson 1389 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the puppet runs off and the Cricket is killed» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each op
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# Test 6 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the…

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fr, did the Carabineer hold onto Pinocchio by the ears?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** hold · **To what, where:** Pinocchio

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This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1389 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio and the Talking Cricket, part 2: the puppet runs off and the Cricket is killed» 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/1389-pg500-part2/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1389-pg500-part2:t6:1
# text = fr, did the Carabineer hold onto Pinocchio by the ears?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Carabineer	carabineer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past · do-support | fr |  |  | Pinocchio |  | by the ears | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ear=Location |

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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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yeah he grabbed the ears

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1389-pg500-part2:t6:o1:1
# text = yeah he grabbed the ears
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past | he | the ears |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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yeah he grabbed the ears and pulled him back hard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1389-pg500-part2:t6:o2:1
# text = yeah he grabbed the ears and pulled him back hard
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past | he | the ears |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme |
| 2 | **pull back** | past | he *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result |

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

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nah he grabbed the nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1389-pg500-part2:t6:o3:1
# text = nah he grabbed the nose
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past | he | the nose |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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nah he grabbed the wooden nose and the hat both

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1389-pg500-part2:t6:o4:1
# text = nah he grabbed the wooden nose and the hat both
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grab** | past | he | the wooden nose and the hat |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent nose=Beneficiary both=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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