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title: How long did Pinocchio have to practice his tricks? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: How long did Pinocchio have to practice his tricks? Test 7 · ★ 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'
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# Test 7 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 21: the two b…

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How long did Pinocchio have to practice his tricks?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Pinocchio · **What happens:** have, practice, trick · **To what, where:** tricks

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This is test 7 · ★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t7:1
# text = How long did Pinocchio have to practice his tricks?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	practice	practice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tricks	trick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past · do-support | Pinocchio |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **practice** | to-infinitive | Pinocchio *not said here* | Pinocchio's tricks |  |  |  |  | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trick=Theme |
| 3 | **trick** |  | Pinocchio |  |  |  |  |  | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=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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Like one week

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t7:o1:1
# text = Like one week
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Like three whole months, no joke

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t7:o2:1
# text = Like three whole months, no joke
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	joke	joke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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About three months, I think

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t7:o3:1
# text = About three months, I think
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I |  |  |  | month |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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Like two whole years, honestly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1408-pg500-part21:t7:o4:1
# text = Like two whole years, honestly
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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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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