--- title: could the swans turn back into humans, or nah? — Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young f… · tree and pragmatics description: could the swans turn back into humans, or nah? Test 8 · ★ 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 and pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1213-pg3282-part14/t8/) [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/) / [Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young f…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1213-pg3282-part14/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, The Bunyip: young fishermen catch a Bun… could the swans turn back into humans, or nah? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** swans · **What happens:** turn back This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t8:1 # text = could the swans turn back into humans, or nah? 1 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 swans swan NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 humans human NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn back** | could | the swans | | | | | into humans | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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} yes, every full moon ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t8:o1:1 # text = yes, every full moon 1 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 5 det _ _ 4 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} nope, never again ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t8:o2:1 # text = nope, never again 1 nope nope INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 again again ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} only once a year at the full moon ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t8:o3:1 # text = only once a year at the full moon 1 only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} they can change back if they dance ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1213-pg3282-part14:t8:o4:1 # text = they can change back if they dance 1 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 change change VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 back back ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 dance dance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **change back** | can | they | | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **dance** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | they | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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