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title: What object did Peppina carry when she returned home injured? — Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Liz… · tree and pragmatics
description: What object did Peppina carry when she returned home injured? Exam question 2 of lesson 720 «Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a star, but greedy Peppina gets a donkey's tail» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question 
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# Exam question 2 · Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a…

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What object did Peppina carry when she returned home injured?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** object · **What happens:** carry, injure · **To what, where:** Peppina

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 720 «Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a star, but greedy Peppina gets a donkey's tail» 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/720-pg2435-part60/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:e2:1
# text = What object did Peppina carry when she returned home injured?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Peppina	Peppina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	injured	injure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past · do-support | object |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **injure** | past · passive |  | Peppina |  |  |  | home *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 {#o1}

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Bag

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:e2:o1:1
# text = Bag
1	Bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:e2:o2:1
# text = A stick
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stick	stick	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 basket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:e2:o3:1
# text = A basket
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	basket	basket	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 bucket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:e2:o4:1
# text = A bucket
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	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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