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title: why was Pinocchio crying so hard? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: why was Pinocchio crying so hard? Test 6 · ★ 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 and
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# Test 6 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 12: Pinocchio…

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why was Pinocchio crying so hard?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Pinocchio · **What happens:** cry

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t6:1
# text = why was Pinocchio crying so hard?
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Pinocchio |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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Geppetto was gone for real, ugh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t6:o1:1
# text = Geppetto was gone for real, ugh
1	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Geppetto |  |  |  |  | for real; gone *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The Fairy left him, super sad, ugh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t6:o2:1
# text = The Fairy left him, super sad, ugh
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	super	super	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the Fairy | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The Weasels caught him again and he was scared and sad, so yeah, ugh

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t6:o3:1
# text = The Weasels caught him again and he was scared and sad, so yeah, ugh
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Weasels	weasel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	scared	scared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | the Weasels | him *= he* |  |  | again |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | scared *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The Fairy died, he's heartbroken, ugh

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t6:o4:1
# text = The Fairy died, he's heartbroken, ugh
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	heartbroken	heartbroken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the Fairy |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **is** | present | Fairy |  |  |  |  | heartbroken *property* | 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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