---
title: Which sequence correctly describes the princess's transformation dur… — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which sequence correctly describes the princess's transformation during the bath? Exam question 3 of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics o
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1010-pg27200-part221/e3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1010-pg27200-part221/) / e3

# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Which sequence correctly describes the princess's transformation during the bath?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** sequence, describe, transform · **To what, where:** transformation

<!-- .vabout -->
This is exam question 3 of lesson 1010 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell» 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/1010-pg27200-part221/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:e3:1
# text = Which sequence correctly describes the princess's transformation during the bath?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sequence	sequence	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	correctly	correctly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	describes	describe	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sequence** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **describe** | present |  | the princess's transformation |  |  | during the bath | correctly *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent transformation=Theme |
| 3 | **transform** |  | the princess |  |  |  |  |  | nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Black swan, then white swan with a black ring, then princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:e3:o1:1
# text = Black swan, then white swan with a black ring, then princess
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Black swan, then princess

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:e3:o2:1
# text = Black swan, then princess
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
5	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Princess, then black swan, then white one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:e3:o3:1
# text = Princess, then black swan, then white one
1	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Black swan, then grey swan, then princess at last

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:e3:o4:1
# text = Black swan, then grey swan, then princess at last
1	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling…, exam 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1010-pg27200-part221/e2/)
- next →: [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling…, exam 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1010-pg27200-part221/e4/)
- ↑ back to [Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magician's head, the swan, and the farewell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1010-pg27200-part221/)