--- title: How did William feel when the sheep started talking? — Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: th… · tree and pragmatics description: How did William feel when the sheep started talking? Test 8 · ★ 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 --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1291-pg3454-part16/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/) / [Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: th…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1291-pg3454-part16/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, A French Puck, part 16: the giant's soul is fo… How did William feel when the sheep started talking? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** William, sheep · **What happens:** feel, start, talk This is test 8 · ★ 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/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t8:1 # text = How did William feel when the sheep started talking? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 William William PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 8 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 talking talk VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past · do-support | William | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **start** | past | the sheep | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **talk** | gerund | the sheep *not said here* | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} Dead scared, legged it home ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t8:o1:1 # text = Dead scared, legged it home 1 Dead dead ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 4 legged leg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **leg** | past | | it | | | | dead, home *property* | tree rules | ### Option 2 {#o2} Calm ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t8:o2:1 # text = Calm 1 Calm calm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Scared ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t8:o3:1 # text = Scared 1 Scared scared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Really frightened, ran off ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1291-pg3454-part16:t8:o4:1 # text = Really frightened, ran off 1 Really really ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 frightened frightened ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run off** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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