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title: Wait, what turned into feathers instead of the rods? — Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, what turned into feathers instead of the rods? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal palace» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the ques
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# Test 2 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, pa…

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Wait, what turned into feathers instead of the rods?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** wait, turn · **To what, where:** feathers

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1542 «Blue Fairy Book, Princess Graciosa and Prince Percinet, part 39: feathers instead of rods, a forest, and a crystal palace» 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/1542-pg540-part39/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t2:1
# text = Wait, what turned into feathers instead of the rods?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past |  |  |  | feathers |  | instead the rods | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into feather=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 {#o1}

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the rods, proper mint, and the whole bundle of them at once

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t2:o1:1
# text = the rods, proper mint, and the whole bundle of them at once
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the cane, really wicked

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t2:o2:1
# text = the cane, really wicked
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cane	cane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	really	really	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the rods, proper mint

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t2:o3:1
# text = the rods, proper mint
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rods	rod	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	mint	mint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
the wand, dead cool

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1542-pg540-part39:t2:o4:1
# text = the wand, dead cool
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cool	cool	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

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