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title: So he went all gooey and turned into a heart? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast… · tree and pragmatics
description: So he went all gooey and turned into a heart? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1747 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71: the soldier falls out of the window, sails in a paper boat, is swallowed by a fish, and melts in the stove» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the depe
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# Test 8 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So he went all gooey and turned into a heart?

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

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This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1747 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, part 71: the soldier falls out of the window, sails in a paper boat, is swallowed by a fish, and melts in the stove» 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/1747-pg640-part71/#t8).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1747-pg640-part71:t8:1
# text = So he went all gooey and turned into a heart?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	gooey	gooey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | he |  |  |  |  | gooey *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | he *not said here* |  |  | a heart |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into heart=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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he melted into a little lump shaped like a heart, dead romantic stuff, honestly

<!-- fold The tree, 15 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1747-pg640-part71:t8:o1:1
# text = Yeah, he melted into a little lump shaped like a heart, dead romantic stuff, honestly
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	melted	melt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	shaped	shape	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stuff	stuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	honestly	honestly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **melt** | past | he |  |  | a little lump |  | honestly *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material into lump=Product |
| 2 | **shape** | participle |  | a little lump *not said here* |  |  |  | like a heart and dead romantic stuff | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, a little lump, dead romantic

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1747-pg640-part71:t8:o2:1
# text = Yeah, a little lump, dead romantic
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	lump	lump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yeah, he went all gooey and turned into a little tin heart which was well romantic, bruv

<!-- fold The tree, 17 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1747-pg640-part71:t8:o3:1
# text = Yeah, he went all gooey and turned into a little tin heart which was well romantic, bruv
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	gooey	gooey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	tin	tin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	bruv	bruv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | he | bruv |  |  |  | gooey *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | he *not said here* |  |  | a little tin heart |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into heart=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | a little tin heart |  |  |  |  | romantic, well *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, he just went a bit squishy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1747-pg640-part71:t8:o4:1
# text = Nah, he just went a bit squishy
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	squishy	squishy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | he |  |  |  |  | squishy *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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