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title: What did the Talking Cricket declare concerning the Marionette's cha… — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Talking Cricket declare concerning the Marionette's character? Exam question 3 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 pragmatics of the qu
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# Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 8: the Assass…

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What did the Talking Cricket declare concerning the Marionette's character?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Talking Cricket · **What happens:** declare, concern · **To what, where:** character

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This is exam question 3 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/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1395-pg500-part8:e3:1
# text = What did the Talking Cricket declare concerning the Marionette's character?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Talking	Talking	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Cricket	cricket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	concerning	concern	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Marionette	Marionette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **declare** *speech: other* | past · do-support | the Talking Cricket |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **concern** | gerund | the Talking Cricket *not said here* | the Marionette's character |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus character=Experiencer |

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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 is a fool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1395-pg500-part8:e3:o1:1
# text = He is a fool
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | He | a fool |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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He is a liar of the lowest kind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1395-pg500-part8:e3:o2:1
# text = He is a liar of the lowest kind
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	liar	liar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | He | a liar |  |  |  | of the lowest kind | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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He is a good boy at heart

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1395-pg500-part8:e3:o3:1
# text = He is a good boy at heart
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | He | a good boy |  | heart |  |  | tree rules |

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

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He is a rascal of the worst kind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1395-pg500-part8:e3:o4:1
# text = He is a rascal of the worst kind
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rascal	rascal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | He | a rascal |  |  |  | of the worst kind | tree rules |

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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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