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title: What event causes the first escape attempt to fail? — Pinocchio, Pinocchio in the Shark, par… · tree and pragmatics
description: What event causes the first escape attempt to fail? Exam question 3 of lesson 1411 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio in the Shark, part 24: Pinocchio finds Geppetto alive inside the Shark and they plan their escape» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Exam question 3 · Pinocchio, Pinocchio in the Shark, part 24: Pinocchio find…

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What event causes the first escape attempt to fail?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** cause, fail · **To what, where:** first escape attempt

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 1411 «Pinocchio, Pinocchio in the Shark, part 24: Pinocchio finds Geppetto alive inside the Shark and they plan their escape» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/1411-pg500-part24/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1411-pg500-part24:e3:1
# text = What event causes the first escape attempt to fail?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	causes	cause	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	amod	_	_
6	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cause** | present |  | the first escape attempt |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition attempt=Patient |
| 2 | **fail** | to-infinitive |  | the first escape attempt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The Shark's sudden sneeze

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1411-pg500-part24:e3:o1:1
# text = The Shark's sudden sneeze
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Shark	Shark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	's	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sneeze	sneeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sneeze** |  | the Shark |  |  |  |  |  | nom sneeze «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The arrival of the fishermen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1411-pg500-part24:e3:o2:1
# text = The arrival of the fishermen
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** |  | the fishermen |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The candle being blown out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1411-pg500-part24:e3:o3:1
# text = The candle being blown out
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	candle	candle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow out** | gerund · passive |  | the candle |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The fall from the tongue

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1411-pg500-part24:e3:o4:1
# text = The fall from the tongue
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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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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