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title: Wait, what did Alidoro promise for later? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what did Alidoro promise for later? Test 7 · ★ 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 option; Mova's choic
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# Test 7 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 16: a chase,…

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Wait, what did Alidoro promise for later?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Alidoro · **What happens:** wait, promise

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:t7:1
# text = Wait, what did Alidoro promise for later?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	Alidoro	Alidoro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | Alidoro |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent what=Theme for late=Goal |

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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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To return the favour if he could

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:t7:o1:1
# text = To return the favour if he could
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	return	return	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | to-infinitive |  | the favour |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Be friends

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:t7:o2:1
# text = Be friends
1	Be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | infinitive | friends |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To bark

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:t7:o3:1
# text = To bark
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	bark	bark	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 | **bark** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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To keep the boy safe from the sea

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1403-pg500-part16:t7:o4:1
# text = To keep the boy safe from the sea
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	safe	safe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  | the boy | the sea |  | safe *property* | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer boy=Beneficiary from sea=Eventuality |

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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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