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title: Bro, why'd the Jailer let Pinocchio out? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, why'd the Jailer let Pinocchio out? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1398 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 11: freed from prison, a Serpent blocks the road, caught by a Farmer» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opt
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# Test 1 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 11: freed fro…

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Bro, why'd the Jailer let Pinocchio out?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Jailer · **What happens:** let out · **To what, where:** Pinocchio

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1398 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 11: freed from prison, a Serpent blocks the road, caught by a Farmer» 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/1398-pg500-part11/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1398-pg500-part11:t1:1
# text = Bro, why'd the Jailer let Pinocchio out?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Jailer	Jailer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let out** | past | the Jailer | Pinocchio |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinocchio=Theme |

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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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'Cause he's nice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1398-pg500-part11:t1:o1:1
# text = 'Cause he's nice
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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'Cause he said he was a thief too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1398-pg500-part11:t1:o2:1
# text = 'Cause he said he was a thief too
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	ccomp	_	_
9	too	too	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Cause |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Cause | a thief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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'Cause he paid the guard some coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1398-pg500-part11:t1:o3:1
# text = 'Cause he paid the guard some coins
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | Cause | the guard |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent guard=Recipient coin=Asset |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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'Cause the guard felt sorry for him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1398-pg500-part11:t1:o4:1
# text = 'Cause the guard felt sorry for him
1	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past |  |  |  |  |  | cause the guard; for him *= he*; sorry *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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