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title: bro what turned the swan back into a princess? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling… · tree and pragmatics
description: bro what turned the swan back into a princess? Test 7 · ★ 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 of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Travelling Companion: the magi…

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bro what turned the swan back into a princess?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bro · **What happens:** turn back · **To what, where:** swan

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This is test 7 · ★ 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. 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t7:1
# text = bro what turned the swan back into a princess?
1	bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | past | bro | the swan |  |  |  | into a princess | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swan=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
three feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t7:o1:1
# text = three feathers
1	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dipping her in the bath three times while John held the feathers over her head

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t7:o2:1
# text = dipping her in the bath three times while John held the feathers over her head
1	dipping	dip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dip** | gerund | John *not said here* | her *= she* |  | the bath | time |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bath=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hold** | past | John | the feathers |  | John's head |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent feather=Theme over head=Location |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
dipping her in the bath three times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t7:o3:1
# text = dipping her in the bath three times
1	dipping	dip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bath	bath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
6	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dip** | gerund |  | her *= she* |  | the bath | time |  | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme in bath=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
waving the feathers three times

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1010-pg27200-part221:t7:o4:1
# text = waving the feathers three times
1	waving	wave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wave** | gerund |  | the feathers |  |  | time |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |

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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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