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title: What quality did the magic boots possess that enabled them to fit Li… — Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb t… · tree and pragmatics
description: What quality did the magic boots possess that enabled them to fit Little Thumb's feet? Exam question 4 of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the q
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# Exam question 4 · Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boot…

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What quality did the magic boots possess that enabled them to fit Little Thumb's feet?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** quality, magic boots, that · **What happens:** do, possess, enable, fit · **To what, where:** boots, feet

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 1090 «Perrault, Little Thumb: Little Thumb takes the Ogre's boots and gold and becomes rich» 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/1090-pg29021-part15/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e4:1
# text = What quality did the magic boots possess that enabled them to fit Little Thumb's feet?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	quality	quality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	possess	possess	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	enabled	enable	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
13	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Thumb	Thumb	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | quality |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **possess** | present | the magic boots |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **enable** | past | that | boots *= boot* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fit** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | Little Thumb's feet |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |

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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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The power to change their size to fit any foot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e4:o1:1
# text = The power to change their size to fit any foot
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | to-infinitive | the power | their size |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient |
| 2 | **fit** | to-infinitive | the power *not said here* | any foot |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The power to change their size and run very fast over land

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e4:o2:1
# text = The power to change their size and run very fast over land
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	run	run	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	very	very	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | to-infinitive | the power | their size |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient |
| 2 | **run** | present | the power *not said here* |  |  | land |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Trajectory |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The power to change their size

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e4:o3:1
# text = The power to change their size
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | to-infinitive |  | their size |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent size=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They could shrink and grow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1090-pg29021-part15:e4:o4:1
# text = They could shrink and grow
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	shrink	shrink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shrink** | could | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **grow** | infinitive | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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