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title: what did the walls say, like? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: what did the walls say, like? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1407 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 20: Pinocchio wakes with donkey ears, and he and Lamp-Wick both hide under cotton bags.» 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 10 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 20: Pinocchio…

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what did the walls say, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** walls · **What happens:** do, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1407 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 20: Pinocchio wakes with donkey ears, and he and Lamp-Wick both hide under cotton bags.» 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/1407-pg500-part20/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1407-pg500-part20:t10:1
# text = what did the walls say, like?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the walls |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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DOWN WITH ARITHMETIC!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1407-pg500-part20:t10:o1:1
# text = DOWN WITH ARITHMETIC!
1	DOWN	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	WITH	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ARITHMETIC	ARITHMETIC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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WE WILL NEVER OPEN A BOOK AGAIN!

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1407-pg500-part20:t10:o2:1
# text = WE WILL NEVER OPEN A BOOK AGAIN!
1	WE	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	WILL	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	NEVER	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	OPEN	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	BOOK	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	AGAIN	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **open** | future | WE | a BOOK |  |  | again |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location book=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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LONG LIVE THE GAMES

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1407-pg500-part20:t10:o3:1
# text = LONG LIVE THE GAMES
1	LONG	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	LIVE	live	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	GAMES	game	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | imperative | you *not said here* | the GAMES |  |  |  | long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme game=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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DOWN WITH SCHOOL RULES

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1407-pg500-part20:t10:o4:1
# text = DOWN WITH SCHOOL RULES
1	DOWN	down	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	WITH	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	SCHOOL	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	RULES	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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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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