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title: To what did the Tunny compare the weight of his passengers? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what did the Tunny compare the weight of his passengers? Exam question 1 of lesson 1412 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to shore, the Fox and Cat beg, milk for a penny» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and
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# Exam question 1 · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to s…

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To what did the Tunny compare the weight of his passengers?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Tunny · **What happens:** compare · **To what, where:** weight

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 1412 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to shore, the Fox and Cat beg, milk for a penny» 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/1412-pg500-part25/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1412-pg500-part25:e1:1
# text = To what did the Tunny compare the weight of his passengers?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Tunny	Tunny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	compare	compare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	passengers	passenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | past · do-support | the Tunny | the weight of Tunny's passengers |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient |

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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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a whole cargo of anchors and sand

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1412-pg500-part25:e1:o1:1
# text = a whole cargo of anchors and sand
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cargo	cargo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	anchors	anchor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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rocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1412-pg500-part25:e1:o2:1
# text = rocks
1	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the seaweed

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1412-pg500-part25:e1:o3:1
# text = the seaweed
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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sea-shells

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1412-pg500-part25:e1:o4:1
# text = sea-shells
1	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	shells	shell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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