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title: Bruh, what proverb did Pinocchio fling at the Cat? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bruh, what proverb did Pinocchio fling at the Cat? Test 14 · ★ 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 of each opti
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# Test 14 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio, part 25: swim to s…

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Bruh, what proverb did Pinocchio fling at the Cat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** proverb · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** Pinocchio fling

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This is test 14 · ★ 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. 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/#t14).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1412-pg500-part25:t14:1
# text = Bruh, what proverb did Pinocchio fling at the Cat?
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
4	proverb	proverb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Pinocchio	Pinocchio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	fling	fling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | proverb | Pinocchio fling |  |  |  | at the Cat | 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 {#o1}

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Lies have short legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1412-pg500-part25:t14:o1:1
# text = Lies have short legs
1	Lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Lies | short legs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Crime never really pays in life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1412-pg500-part25:t14:o2:1
# text = Crime never really pays in life
1	Crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	pays	pay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pay** | present | Crime |  |  | life |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Crime does not pay

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1412-pg500-part25:t14:o3:1
# text = Crime does not pay
1	Crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **pay** | present · do-support | Crime |  |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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

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Stolen money never bears fruit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1412-pg500-part25:t14:o4:1
# text = Stolen money never bears fruit
1	Stolen	steal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | participle |  | money |  |  |  | bears fruit *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location money=Theme |

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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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