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title: how far is the sea? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: how far is the sea? Test 9 · ★ 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 of each optio
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# Test 9 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 12: Pinocchio…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
how far is the sea?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** sea

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t9:1
# text = how far is the sea?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the sea |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |

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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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Way more than fifty miles across the hills and rivers and forests, super long trek, ngl

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t9:o1:1
# text = Way more than fifty miles across the hills and rivers and forests, super long trek, ngl
1	Way	Way	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	4	advmod	_	_
3	than	than	ADP	IN	_	2	fixed	_	_
4	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	super	super	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	trek	trek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ngl	ngl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
More than fifty miles, that's a trek, ngl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t9:o2:1
# text = More than fifty miles, that's a trek, ngl
1	More	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	3	advmod	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	trek	trek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	ngl	ngl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | that | a trek and ngl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a hundred miles over the mountains and across the big ocean, that's wild, ngl

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t9:o3:1
# text = Like a hundred miles over the mountains and across the big ocean, that's wild, ngl
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	ngl	ngl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | like hundred miles over the mountains and the big ocean; wild *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Like a few miles, that's kinda far, ngl

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1399-pg500-part12:t9:o4:1
# text = Like a few miles, that's kinda far, ngl
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	kinda	kinda	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	ngl	ngl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | like a few miles; far, kinda *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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