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title: what did the sign say, bro? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the sign say, bro? Test 9 · ★ 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; Mova's
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# Test 9 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 4: Pinocchio…

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what did the sign say, bro?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** sign · **What happens:** do, say · **To what, where:** sign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t9:1
# text = what did the sign say, bro?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the sign and bro |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the sign and bro *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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GREAT MARIONETTE THEATER

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t9:o1:1
# text = GREAT MARIONETTE THEATER
1	GREAT	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	MARIONETTE	marionette	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	THEATER	theater	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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ROYAL MARIONETTE SHOW

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t9:o2:1
# text = ROYAL MARIONETTE SHOW
1	ROYAL	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	MARIONETTE	MARIONETTE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	SHOW	show	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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GRAND PUPPET THEATRE

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t9:o3:1
# text = GRAND PUPPET THEATRE
1	GRAND	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	PUPPET	puppet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	THEATRE	theatre	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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THE PUPPET THEATER

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1391-pg500-part4:t9:o4:1
# text = THE PUPPET THEATER
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	PUPPET	puppet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	THEATER	theater	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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