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title: lowkey, which trick did the Donkey fail first? — Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: lowkey, which trick did the Donkey fail first? Test 13 · ★ 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 an
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# Test 13 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, l…

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lowkey, which trick did the Donkey fail first?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lowkey · **What happens:** trick, do · **To what, where:** Donkey fail

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This is test 13 · ★ 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/#t13).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t13:1
# text = lowkey, which trick did the Donkey fail first?
1	lowkey	lowkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	trick	trick	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Donkey	Donkey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trick** | present | lowkey |  |  |  |  |  | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **do** | past | lowkey | the Donkey fail |  |  |  | first *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fail=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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the fire, he jumped

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t13:o1:1
# text = the fire, he jumped
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | the fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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the hoop

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t13:o2:1
# text = the hoop
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hoop	hoop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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the rings, he crashed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t13:o3:1
# text = the rings, he crashed
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	crashed	crash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crash** | past | the rings |  |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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the drum

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t13:o4:1
# text = the drum
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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