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title: yo, did the donkey really get sold for four cents? — Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: yo, did the donkey really get sold for four cents? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1409 «Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, lame and sold, is tossed into the sea and comes back a puppet.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question
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# Test 1 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, l…

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yo, did the donkey really get sold for four cents?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, sell · **To what, where:** donkey

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1409 «Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, lame and sold, is tossed into the sea and comes back a puppet.» 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/1409-pg500-part22/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t1:1
# text = yo, did the donkey really get sold for four cents?
1	yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	donkey	donkey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	really	really	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	get	get	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	sold	sell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the donkey |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sell** | infinitive · passive |  | the donkey *not said here* |  |  |  | for four cents | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: for cent=Asset |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yep, four cents, lowkey wild

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t1:o1:1
# text = yep, four cents, lowkey wild
1	yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	cents	cent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
yep

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t1:o2:1
# text = yep
1	yep	yep	INTJ	UH	_	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nope, two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t1:o3:1
# text = nope, two
1	nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nope, it was just two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t1:o4:1
# text = nope, it was just two
1	nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | it | two |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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