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title: no cap, how much did his ears grow overnight? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: no cap, how much did his ears grow overnight? Test 2 · ★ 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 
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# Test 2 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 20: Pinocchio…

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no cap, how much did his ears grow overnight?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cap, ears · **What happens:** do, grow · **To what, where:** much

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This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1407-pg500-part20:t2:1
# text = no cap, how much did his ears grow overnight?
1	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
6	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	overnight	overnight	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | no cap | much |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality |
| 2 | **grow** | present | his ears |  |  |  |  | overnight *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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at least ten inches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1407-pg500-part20:t2:o1:1
# text = at least ten inches
1	at	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	nmod	_	_
3	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
about nine inches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1407-pg500-part20:t2:o2:1
# text = about nine inches
1	about	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
so much they touched the ceiling

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1407-pg500-part20:t2:o3:1
# text = so much they touched the ceiling
1	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	much	much	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ceiling	ceiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | they | the ceiling |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ceiling=Co-Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nearly twelve inches

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1407-pg500-part20:t2:o4:1
# text = nearly twelve inches
1	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	inches	inch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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