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title: so fire eater asks about his dad, what's he gonna say — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: so fire eater asks about his dad, what's he gonna say Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1392 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 5: Pinocchio saves Harlequin from Fire Eater's fire» 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 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 5: Pinocchio…

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so fire eater asks about his dad, what's he gonna say

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fire eater, eater · **What happens:** ask, be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1392 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 5: Pinocchio saves Harlequin from Fire Eater's fire» 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/1392-pg500-part5/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1392-pg500-part5:t12:1
# text = so fire eater asks about his dad, what's he gonna say
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	eater	eater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	gonna	gonna	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	13	dep	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | fire eater |  |  |  |  | about eater's dad | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about dad=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | present | eater |  |  |  |  | say *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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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he'll say he's fine, bro

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1392-pg500-part5:t12:o1:1
# text = he'll say he's fine, bro
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | future | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | bro *vocative*; fine *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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he'll lie, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1392-pg500-part5:t12:o2:1
# text = he'll lie, lol
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | future | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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he's gonna tell the truth, sadly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1392-pg500-part5:t12:o3:1
# text = he's gonna tell the truth, sadly
1	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	gonna	gonna	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | he |  |  |  |  | sadly, tell *property* | tree rules |

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

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geppetto never has pennies, sadly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1392-pg500-part5:t12:o4:1
# text = geppetto never has pennies, sadly
1	geppetto	geppetto	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pennies	penny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present | geppetto | pennies |  |  |  | sadly *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penny=Patient |

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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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