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title: Which creature was dispatched by the Lovely Maiden to release the Ma… — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which creature was dispatched by the Lovely Maiden to release the Marionette from the oak? Exam question 2 of lesson 1395 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assassins hang him, and the Fairy saves him» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Exam question 2 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…

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Which creature was dispatched by the Lovely Maiden to release the Marionette from the oak?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Lovely Maiden · **What happens:** dispatch, release · **To what, where:** creature, Marionette, oak

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 1395 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assassins hang him, and the Fairy saves him» 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/1395-pg500-part8/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1395-pg500-part8:e2:1
# text = Which creature was dispatched by the Lovely Maiden to release the Marionette from the oak?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dispatched	dispatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Lovely	Lovely	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	8	compound	_	_
8	Maiden	Maiden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dispatch** | past · passive | the Lovely Maiden | which creature |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **release** | to-infinitive | the Lovely Maiden *not said here* | the Marionette |  | the oak |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer marionette=Source |

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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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A Hawk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1395-pg500-part8:e2:o1:1
# text = A Hawk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hawk	hawk	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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A Tiny Wren from the hedge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1395-pg500-part8:e2:o2:1
# text = A Tiny Wren from the hedge
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Wren	wren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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A Falcon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1395-pg500-part8:e2:o3:1
# text = A Falcon
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Falcon	falcon	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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An Owl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1395-pg500-part8:e2:o4:1
# text = An Owl
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Owl	owl	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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