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title: what did Geppetto sell, be honest? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did Geppetto sell, be honest? Test 7 · ★ 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 option;
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# Test 7 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 4: Pinocchio…

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what did Geppetto sell, be honest?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Geppetto · **What happens:** sell, be

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t7:1
# text = what did Geppetto sell, be honest?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
7	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past · do-support | Geppetto |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | honest *property* | 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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his hat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t7: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 tools

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t7:o2:1
# text = his tools
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	tools	tool	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 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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his old coat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t7:o3:1
# 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.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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his bread box

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t7:o4:1
# text = his bread box
1	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	box	box	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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