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title: Did Puck ever turn into a needle, like, actually? — Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did Puck ever turn into a needle, like, actually? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo…

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Did Puck ever turn into a needle, like, actually?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** puck, turn · **To what, where:** needle

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1291 «Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is found, then Puck starts his pranks» 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/1291-pg3454-part16/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t4:1
# text = Did Puck ever turn into a needle, like, actually?
1	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	Puck	puck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	needle	needle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **puck** | past · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | a needle | ever | actually *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into needle=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Nope, he couldn't copy the hole

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t4:o1:1
# text = Nope, he couldn't copy the hole
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	copy	copy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **copy** | could | he | the hole |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nah, too small

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t4:o2:1
# text = Nah, too small
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Yeah, he tried the eye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t4:o3:1
# text = Yeah, he tried the eye
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | he | the eye |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Yes, he slid through the eye

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t4:o4:1
# text = Yes, he slid through the eye
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	slid	slide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide** | past | he |  |  | the eye |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through eye=Trajectory |

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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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