--- title: Did the foals actually turn back into princes or what? — Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderla… · tree and pragmatics description: Did the foals actually turn back into princes or what? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads and the wedding» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was righ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1582-pg540-part79/t4/) [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/) / [Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderla…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1582-pg540-part79/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads a… Did the foals actually turn back into princes or what? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** foals · **What happens:** turn back This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1582 «Popular Tales from the Norse, Cinderlad: the seven heads and the wedding» 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/1582-pg540-part79/#t4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:t4:1 # text = Did the foals actually turn back into princes or what? 1 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 foals foal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 4 actually actually ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 back back ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn back** | past · do-support | the foals | | | | | into princes; actually *property* | 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 {#o1} Nah, they stayed foals ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:t4:o1:1 # text = Nah, they stayed foals 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 foals foal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stay** | past | they | foals | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme foal=Location | ### Option 2 {#o2} Nah, they just ran off after that ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:t4:o2:1 # text = Nah, they just ran off after that 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run off** | past | they | | | | after that | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3} Yeah, they became proper princes again ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:t4:o3:1 # text = Yeah, they became proper princes again 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 princes prince NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 xcomp _ _ 7 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **become** | past | they | proper princes | | | again | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Yeah, they went back to being men ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1582-pg540-part79:t4:o4:1 # text = Yeah, they went back to being men 1 Yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 back back ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 8 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go back** | past | they | | | | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | to men | tree rules | **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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