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title: Bro, what did the Fairy tell him to do? — Pinocchio, The Land of Toys, part 19:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did the Fairy tell him to do? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1406 «Pinocchio, The Land of Toys, part 19: Pinocchio is tempted, refuses, then climbs onto a donkey and hears a warning whisper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Land of Toys, part 19: Pinocchio is tempted…

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Bro, what did the Fairy tell him to do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Fairy, Bro · **What happens:** tell, do · **To what, where:** Bro, him · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1406 «Pinocchio, The Land of Toys, part 19: Pinocchio is tempted, refuses, then climbs onto a donkey and hears a warning whisper» 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/1406-pg500-part19/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1406-pg500-part19:t12:1
# text = Bro, what did the Fairy tell him to do?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	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	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	iobj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | the Fairy | Bro | him *= he* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Bro *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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Work hard and keep quiet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1406-pg500-part19:t12:o1:1
# text = Work hard and keep quiet
1	Work	work	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **work** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Behave and keep his word

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1406-pg500-part19:t12:o2:1
# text = Behave and keep his word
1	Behave	behave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	keep	keep	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **behave** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | his word |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 3 | **word** |  | his *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Be good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1406-pg500-part19:t12:o3:1
# text = Be good
1	Be	be	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Obey

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1406-pg500-part19:t12:o4:1
# text = Obey
1	Obey	Obey	PROPN	NNP	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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