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title: what was he hard at work on? — Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio… · tree and pragmatics
description: what was he hard at work on? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 1413 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio: the Marionette becomes a real boy» 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 11 · ★ · Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio: the Marionette bec…

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what was he hard at work on?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1413 «Pinocchio, The Adventures of Pinocchio: the Marionette becomes a real boy» 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/1413-pg500-part26/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1413-pg500-part26:t11:1
# text = what was he hard at work on?
1	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | 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 picture frame

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1413-pg500-part26:t11:o1:1
# text = a picture frame
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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a clock case

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1413-pg500-part26:t11:o2:1
# text = a clock case
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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a chair

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1413-pg500-part26:t11:o3:1
# text = a chair
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a picture frame for the wall

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1413-pg500-part26:t11:o4:1
# text = a picture frame for the wall
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wall	wall	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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**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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