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title: who was that voice in the dark, a bro? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: who was that voice in the dark, a bro? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1410 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 23: Pinocchio is swallowed by the Shark» 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 was right.
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# Test 8 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 23: Pinocchio…

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who was that voice in the dark, a bro?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** bro

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1410 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 23: Pinocchio is swallowed by the Shark» 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/1410-pg500-part23/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1410-pg500-part23:t8:1
# text = who was that voice in the dark, a bro?
1	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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

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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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A poor Tunny swallowed too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1410-pg500-part23:t8:o1:1
# text = A poor Tunny swallowed too
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Tunny	Tunny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | past | a poor Tunny |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A poor Goat swallowed too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1410-pg500-part23:t8:o2:1
# text = A poor Goat swallowed too
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | past | a poor Goat |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A poor Tunny who was swallowed by the Shark too

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1410-pg500-part23:t8:o3:1
# text = A poor Tunny who was swallowed by the Shark too
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Tunny	Tunny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Shark	Shark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swallow** | past · passive | the Shark | a poor Tunny |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A rich Tunny swallowed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1410-pg500-part23:t8:o4:1
# text = A rich Tunny swallowed
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Tunny	Tunny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swallowed	swallow	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 | **swallow** | past | a rich Tunny |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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