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title: What soup turned his hair silver, though? — Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West… · tree and pragmatics
description: What soup turned his hair silver, though? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 1442 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29: the Prince learns tricks from the Master-maid and tames the fire horse» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Test 10 · ★ · Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29…

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What soup turned his hair silver, though?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** turn · **To what, where:** hair silver

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1442 «Norse Tales, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, part 29: the Prince learns tricks from the Master-maid and tames the fire horse» 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/1442-pg503-part29/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1442-pg503-part29:t10:1
# text = What soup turned his hair silver, though?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past |  | his hair silver |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent silver=Theme |

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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 second cauldron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1442-pg503-part29:t10:o1:1
# text = the second cauldron
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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the soup in the second cauldron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1442-pg503-part29:t10:o2:1
# text = the soup in the second cauldron
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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the broth in the middle pot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1442-pg503-part29:t10:o3:1
# text = the broth in the middle pot
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	broth	broth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the soup in the first cauldron

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1442-pg503-part29:t10:o4:1
# text = the soup in the first cauldron
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soup	soup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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