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title: what did he say he always tells, yeah, the truth or lies? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did he say he always tells, yeah, the truth or lies? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1401 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio begs for pennies, refuses hard work, and is recognised by the Fairy» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
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# Test 9 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio…

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what did he say he always tells, yeah, the truth or lies?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** say, tell, lie · **To what, where:** truth · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1401 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 14: Pinocchio begs for pennies, refuses hard work, and is recognised by the Fairy» 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/1401-pg500-part14/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1401-pg500-part14:t9:1
# text = what did he say he always tells, yeah, the truth or lies?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	7	advmod	_	_
7	tells	tell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | he |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | he | the truth |  |  |  | always *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient |
| 3 | **lie** | present | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1401-pg500-part14:t9:o1:1
# text = nothing
1	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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lies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1401-pg500-part14:t9:o2:1
# text = lies
1	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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truth

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1401-pg500-part14:t9:o3:1
# text = truth
1	truth	truth	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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lie

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1401-pg500-part14:t9:o4:1
# text = lie
1	lie	lie	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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