--- title: Bro, how big did the Dolphin say the Shark was? — Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13:… · tree and pragmatics description: Bro, how big did the Dolphin say the Shark was? Test 7 · ★ 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 th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1400-pg500-part13/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1400-pg500-part13/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Pinocchio, Pinocchio at Sea, part 13: Pinocchio flies to t… Bro, how big did the Dolphin say the Shark was? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Bro, Dolphin, Shark · **What happens:** do, say, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t7:1 # text = Bro, how big did the Dolphin say the Shark was? 1 Bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 amod _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Dolphin Dolphin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Shark Shark PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | Bro | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the Dolphin | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** | past | the Shark | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} five stories high and as wide as the sea ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t7:o1:1 # text = five stories high and as wide as the sea 1 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 5 as as ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} five stories high ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t7:o2:1 # text = five stories high 1 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} as tall as a tower ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t7:o3:1 # text = as tall as a tower 1 as as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} ten stories tall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1400-pg500-part13:t7:o4:1 # text = ten stories tall 1 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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