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title: Did Pinocchio go soft on Eugene or still be a toughie? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Pinocchio go soft on Eugene or still be a toughie? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1402 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio fights his schoolmates and a boy falls as if dead» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o
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# Test 10 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio…

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Did Pinocchio go soft on Eugene or still be a toughie?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Pinocchio · **What happens:** go, be · **To what, where:** toughie

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1402 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio fights his schoolmates and a boy falls as if dead» 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/1402-pg500-part15/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1402-pg500-part15:t10:1
# text = Did Pinocchio go soft on Eugene or still be a toughie?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Eugene	Eugene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	toughie	toughie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · do-support | Pinocchio |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | infinitive | Pinocchio *not said here* | a toughie |  |  | still |  | 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 {#o1}

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He ignored him quietly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1402-pg500-part15:t10:o1:1
# text = He ignored him quietly
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ignored	ignore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | past | He | him *= he* |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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He felt bad and carried him all the way home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1402-pg500-part15:t10:o2:1
# text = He felt bad and carried him all the way home
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | past | He |  |  |  |  | bad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **carry** | past | He *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | all way *obl:unmarked* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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He sobbed and wet his hanky

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1402-pg500-part15:t10:o3:1
# text = He sobbed and wet his hanky
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sobbed	sob	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wet	wet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	hanky	hanky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sob** | past | He |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **wet** | past | He *not said here* | his hanky |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hanky=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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He sat with him and read aloud from his book

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1402-pg500-part15:t10:o4:1
# text = He sat with him and read aloud from his book
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	read	read	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | He |  |  | his book |  | with him *= he* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **read** | present | He *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «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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