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title: Yo, what did the mom use to beat Lizina? — Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Liz… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yo, what did the mom use to beat Lizina? Test 10 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 10 · ★ · Italian Fairy Tales, Father Gatto: Lizina wins gold and a…

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Yo, what did the mom use to beat Lizina?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mom · **What happens:** use, beat · **To what, where:** Lizina

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This is test 10 · ★ 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. 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/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:t10:1
# text = Yo, what did the mom use to beat Lizina?
1	Yo	yo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mom	mom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	Lizina	Lizina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · do-support | the mom |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 2 | **beat** | to-infinitive | the mom *not said here* | Lizina |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lizina=Theme |

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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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a stick

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:t10:o1:1
# 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 2 {#o2}

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the bucket

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:t10:o2:1
# text = the bucket
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|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.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the broom

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:t10:o3:1
# text = the broom
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	broom	broom	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 rope

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:720-pg2435-part60:t10:o4:1
# text = a rope
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rope	rope	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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