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title: Bro, did the whip thing actually happen? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, did the whip thing actually happen? Test 6 · ★ 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 choice wa
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# Test 6 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two b…

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Bro, did the whip thing actually happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Bro, whip thing · **What happens:** do, happen · **To what, where:** whip thing

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This is test 6 · ★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t6:1
# text = Bro, did the whip thing actually happen?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Bro | the whip thing |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 2 | **happen** | infinitive | the whip thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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Yep, he got hit across the legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t6:o1:1
# text = Yep, he got hit across the legs
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past · passive |  | he |  | the legs |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Yep, he got kicked in the head

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t6:o2:1
# text = Yep, he got kicked in the head
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	kicked	kick	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kick** | past · passive |  | he |  | the head |  |  | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in head=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nah, they just yelled at him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t6:o3:1
# text = Nah, they just yelled at him
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	yelled	yell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | past | they |  |  |  |  | at him *= he* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yep, he got hit across the legs and back many times that day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t6:o4:1
# text = Yep, he got hit across the legs and back many times that day
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	hit	hit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	across	across	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past · passive |  | he |  | the legs | time |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-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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