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title: Did Pinocchio promise to be good, or nah? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Pinocchio promise to be good, or nah? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1405 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 18: Pinocchio is kept waiting, kicks the door, and is tempted away by Lamp-Wick» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Test 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 18: Pinocchio…

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Did Pinocchio promise to be good, or nah?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Pinocchio · **What happens:** promise, be

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1405 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 18: Pinocchio is kept waiting, kicks the door, and is tempted away by Lamp-Wick» 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/1405-pg500-part18/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1405-pg500-part18:t12:1
# text = Did Pinocchio promise to be good, or nah?
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	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past · do-support | Pinocchio |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Pinocchio *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Yeah, he promised to study

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1405-pg500-part18:t12:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he promised to study
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	study	study	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **study** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yeah, sure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1405-pg500-part18:t12:o2:1
# text = Yeah, sure
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yeah, he promised to rest

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1405-pg500-part18:t12:o3:1
# text = Yeah, he promised to rest
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **rest** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nope, he promised to play

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1405-pg500-part18:t12:o4:1
# text = Nope, he promised to play
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **play** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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