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title: Haha, what was the Fisherman planning to do with the fish? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Haha, what was the Fisherman planning to do with the fish? Test 10 · ★ 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 question and of each op
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# Test 10 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase,…

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Haha, what was the Fisherman planning to do with the fish?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Fisherman · **What happens:** plan, do

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:t10:1
# text = Haha, what was the Fisherman planning to do with the fish?
1	Haha	haha	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	planning	plan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plan** | past · progressive | the Fisherman |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Fisherman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the fish | vn act-114-1 «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 {#o1}

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Sell

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:t10:o1:1
# text = Sell
1	Sell	sell	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 | **sell** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Cook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:t10:o2:1
# text = Cook
1	Cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Eat them for dinner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:t10:o3:1
# text = Eat them for dinner
1	Eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | for dinner | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Keep them as pets

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:t10:o4:1
# text = Keep them as pets
1	Keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	pets	pet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  | as pets | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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