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title: Do you reckon the boys would have owned up if they'd stayed? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Do you reckon the boys would have owned up if they'd stayed? Test 12 · ★ 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
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# Test 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 15: Pinocchio…

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Do you reckon the boys would have owned up if they'd stayed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, boys · **What happens:** reckon, own up, stay · **To what, where:** boys

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This is test 12 · ★ 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/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1402-pg500-part15:t12:1
# text = Do you reckon the boys would have owned up if they'd stayed?
1	Do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reckon	reckon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	owned	own	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	stayed	stay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reckon** | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **own up** | would · perfect · passive |  | the boys |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **stay** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | boys *= boy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Probably not, they just bolted

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1402-pg500-part15:t12:o1:1
# text = Probably not, they just bolted
1	Probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **bolt** | past | they |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, maybe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1402-pg500-part15:t12:o2:1
# text = Yeah, maybe
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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No, they'd have hidden it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1402-pg500-part15:t12:o3:1
# text = No, they'd have hidden it
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | would · perfect · passive |  | they |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yeah, they would have said

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1402-pg500-part15:t12:o4:1
# text = Yeah, they would have said
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | would · perfect | they |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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