---
title: was Pinocchio salty about his feet, dude? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: was Pinocchio salty about his feet, dude? Test 4 · ★ 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 pragmatics of the question and of each 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1391-pg500-part4/t4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1391-pg500-part4/) / t4

# Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 4: Pinocchio…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
was Pinocchio salty about his feet, dude?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Pinocchio

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 4 · ★ 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. 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t4:1
# text = was Pinocchio salty about his feet, dude?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	salty	salty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dude	dude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Pinocchio |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, he wanted new ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t4:o1:1
# text = yeah, he wanted new ones
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | he | new ones |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
no, not really

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t4:o2:1
# text = no, not really
1	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yeah, kinda

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t4:o3:1
# text = yeah, kinda
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nah, he was just chill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t4:o4:1
# text = nah, he was just chill
1	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	chill	chill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | chill *property* | tree rules |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio…, test 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1391-pg500-part4/t3/)
- next →: [Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio…, test 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1391-pg500-part4/t5/)
- ↑ back to [Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 4: Pinocchio eats peels and cores, gets new feet, and chases the pipes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1391-pg500-part4/)