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title: No cap, what was Geppetto's boat compared to? — Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13:… · tree and pragmatics
description: No cap, what was Geppetto's boat compared to? Test 4 · ★ 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 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to t…

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No cap, what was Geppetto's boat compared to?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** cap · **What happens:** be, compare · **To what, where:** boat

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t4:1
# text = No cap, what was Geppetto's boat compared to?
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	Geppetto	Geppetto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
9	compared	compare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | no cap | Geppetto's boat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **compare** | past | no cap |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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a barrel floating on the open sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t4:o1:1
# text = a barrel floating on the open sea
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	floating	float	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float** | gerund | a barrel *not said here* |  |  | the open sea |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on sea=Trajectory |

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

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a nutshell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t4:o2:1
# text = a nutshell
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nutshell	nutshell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a wooden tub

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t4:o3:1
# text = a wooden tub
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tub	tub	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a small plate

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t4:o4:1
# text = a small plate
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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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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