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title: Ayo, what did the Little Man do with lazy boys? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ayo, what did the Little Man do with lazy boys? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1408 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two boys turn into donkeys and are sold» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 12 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two b…

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Ayo, what did the Little Man do with lazy boys?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Little Man · **What happens:** do

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This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1408 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two boys turn into donkeys and are sold» 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/1408-pg500-part21/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t12:1
# text = Ayo, what did the Little Man do with lazy boys?
1	Ayo	Ayo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	lazy	lazy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · do-support | the Little Man |  |  |  |  | with lazy boys; Ayo *vocative* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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Sent them off to a school far away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t12:o1:1
# text = Sent them off to a school far away
1	Sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send off** | past |  | them *= they* |  | a school |  | away *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to school=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Sold them off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t12:o2:1
# text = Sold them off
1	Sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell off** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Took them off to the Land of Toys

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t12:o3:1
# text = Took them off to the Land of Toys
1	Took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Toys	toy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | to the Land of Toys | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Sent them home

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t12:o4:1
# text = Sent them home
1	Sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	home	home	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past |  | them *= they* |  |  |  | home *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

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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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