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title: Mate, what did the man on the road pull? — Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did the man on the road pull? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1400 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to the shore, dives in to save Geppetto, and reaches the Land of the Busy Bees» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 11 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to t…

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Mate, what did the man on the road pull?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** man · **What happens:** pull

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1400 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to the shore, dives in to save Geppetto, and reaches the Land of the Busy Bees» 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/1400-pg500-part13/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t11:1
# text = Mate, what did the man on the road pull?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | past · do-support | the man on the road |  |  |  |  | Mate *vocative* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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three carts of grain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t11:o1:1
# text = three carts of grain
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two heavy carts piled high with coal and iron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t11:o2:1
# text = two heavy carts piled high with coal and iron
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	piled	pile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pile** | participle |  | two heavy carts *not said here* |  |  |  | with coal and iron; high *property* | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with coal=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a long train of carts full of coal for the mill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t11:o3:1
# text = a long train of carts full of coal for the mill
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
two carts of coal

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t11:o4:1
# text = two carts of coal
1	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	carts	cart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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