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title: fam, what did the horse turn into when it saw the nail? — Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever… · tree and pragmatics
description: fam, what did the horse turn into when it saw the nail? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a ho…

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fam, what did the horse turn into when it saw the nail?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fam · **What happens:** do, turn, see · **To what, where:** horse, nail

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1650 «Fairy Book, Master and Pupil: a clever boy turns into a horse and a pole-cat ends a wizard» 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/1650-pg5615-part39/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t7:1
# text = fam, what did the horse turn into when it saw the nail?
1	fam	fam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	nail	nail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | fam | the horse |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality |
| 2 | **turn** | present | fam |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | past | fam | the nail |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nail=Stimulus |

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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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a swan, soaring over

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t7:o1:1
# text = a swan, soaring over
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	soaring	soar	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soar over** | gerund | a swan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a dove, flying up high

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t7:o2:1
# text = a dove, flying up high
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dove	dove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	high	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly up** | gerund | a dove *not said here* |  |  |  |  | high *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a bird

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t7:o3:1
# text = a bird
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a hen

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1650-pg5615-part39:t7:o4:1
# text = a hen
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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