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title: Which garment did Geppetto dispose of in order to purchase the A-B-C… — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which garment did Geppetto dispose of in order to purchase the A-B-C book? Exam question 3 of lesson 1391 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 4: Pinocchio eats peels and cores, gets new feet, and chases the pipes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p
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# Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 4: Pinocchio…

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Which garment did Geppetto dispose of in order to purchase the A-B-C book?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** garment · **What happens:** dispose, purchase · **To what, where:** C book

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1391 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 4: Pinocchio eats peels and cores, gets new feet, and chases the pipes» 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/1391-pg500-part4/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:e3:1
# text = Which garment did Geppetto dispose of in order to purchase the A-B-C book?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	garment	garment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dispose	dispose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	obl	_	_
7	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	10	mark	_	_
8	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	fixed	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	reparandum	_	_
12	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	B	B	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	C	c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dispose** | past · do-support | which garment |  |  |  |  |  | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **purchase** | to-infinitive | which garment *not said here* | a C book |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset book=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 {#o1}

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His hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:e3:o1:1
# text = His hat
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	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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His boots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:e3:o2:1
# text = His boots
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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His best cap

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:e3:o3:1
# text = His best cap
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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His old coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:e3:o4:1
# text = His old coat
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	coat	coat	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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