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title: did Pinocchio really want to die? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: did Pinocchio really want to die? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1399 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 12: Pinocchio outwits the Weasels, then grieves at the Fairy's grave and meets a Pigeon» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 11 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 12: Pinocchio…

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did Pinocchio really want to die?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** do, want, die · **To what, where:** Pinocchio

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1399 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 12: Pinocchio outwits the Weasels, then grieves at the Fairy's grave and meets a Pigeon» 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/1399-pg500-part12/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t11:1
# text = did Pinocchio really want to die?
1	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | Pinocchio |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinocchio=Eventuality |
| 2 | **want** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **die** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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Nope, he just wanted attention, fr

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t11:o1:1
# text = Nope, he just wanted attention, fr
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | he | attention and fr |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot attention=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
He said so, but he was super dramatic, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t11:o2:1
# text = He said so, but he was super dramatic, lol
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	super	super	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t11:o3:1
# text = Yeah, lol
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nope, ugh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t11:o4:1
# text = Nope, ugh
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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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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