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title: fr, what did the Manager hit him with? — Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, p… · tree and pragmatics
description: fr, what did the Manager hit him with? Test 4 · ★ 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 and of each
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# Test 4 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Little Circus Donkey, part 22: Pinocchio, l…

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fr, what did the Manager hit him with?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fr · **What happens:** hit · **To what, where:** Manager

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t4:1
# text = fr, what did the Manager hit him with?
1	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Manager	Manager	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	hit	hit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hit** | past · do-support | fr | Manager |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent what=Patient he=Result |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the whip handle, hard, on the nose, and laughing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t4:o1:1
# text = the whip handle, hard, on the nose, and laughing
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the handle, on his back side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t4:o2:1
# text = the handle, on his back side
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the whip handle, on the nose, twice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t4:o3:1
# text = the whip handle, on the nose, twice
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the whip handle, on the nose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1409-pg500-part22:t4:o4:1
# text = the whip handle, on the nose
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

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