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title: was the youth gutted or lit when he got turned into a swan? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young f… · tree and pragmatics
description: was the youth gutted or lit when he got turned into a swan? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree
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# Test 7 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun…

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was the youth gutted or lit when he got turned into a swan?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** be, gut, lit, turn · **To what, where:** youth, he, swan

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1213 «Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bunyip cub, its angry mother rises from the pool, and the youths are turned into swans» 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/1213-pg3282-part14/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t7:1
# text = was the youth gutted or lit when he got turned into a swan?
1	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	10	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the youth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gut** | participle |  | the youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **turn** | past · passive |  | he |  | a swan |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into swan=Trajectory |

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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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
gutted, for sure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t7:o1:1
# text = gutted, for sure
1	gutted	gut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gut** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for sure | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
happy, honestly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t7:o2:1
# text = happy, honestly
1	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
relieved to be free

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t7:o3:1
# text = relieved to be free
1	relieved	relieved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | free *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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thrilled to fly away

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t7:o4:1
# text = thrilled to fly away
1	thrilled	thrilled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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