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title: What did the Green Fisherman believe Pinocchio to be upon examining… — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the Green Fisherman believe Pinocchio to be upon examining him? Exam question 4 of lesson 1403 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase, a rescued dog, and a net full of fish» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Exam question 4 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase,…

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What did the Green Fisherman believe Pinocchio to be upon examining him?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Green Fisherman · **What happens:** believe, be · **To what, where:** Pinocchio

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1403 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase, a rescued dog, and a net full of fish» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1403-pg500-part16/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:e4:1
# text = What did the Green Fisherman believe Pinocchio to be upon examining him?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
10	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	examining	examine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past · do-support | the Green Fisherman | Pinocchio |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme pinocchio=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | the Green Fisherman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | examine *property* | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:e4:o1:1
# text = Fish
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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A crab

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:e4:o2:1
# text = A crab
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crab	crab	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 shark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:e4:o3:1
# text = A shark
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shark	shark	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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Eel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:e4:o4:1
# text = Eel
1	Eel	eel	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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