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title: Bro, what did she turn the lad into when the goblins got close? — pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bro, what did she turn the lad into when the goblins got close? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 1766 «pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escape the goblins with the magic ball and reach the world again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragm
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# Test 3 · ★ · pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runa…

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Bro, what did she turn the lad into when the goblins got close?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** she, goblins · **What happens:** turn, get · **To what, where:** lad

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1766 «pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escape the goblins with the magic ball and reach the world again» 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/1766-pg641-part17/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1766-pg641-part17:t3:1
# text = Bro, what did she turn the lad into when the goblins got close?
1	Bro	bro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obj	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	into	into	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	goblins	goblin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · do-support | she | the lad |  |  |  | Bro *vocative* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent what=Theme lad=Result |
| 2 | **get** | past | the goblins |  |  |  |  | close *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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 brown mouse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1766-pg641-part17:t3:o1:1
# text = A brown mouse
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	mouse	mouse	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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A little fish

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1766-pg641-part17:t3:o2:1
# text = A little fish
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A little fish in the brook

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1766-pg641-part17:t3:o3:1
# text = A little fish in the brook
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	brook	brook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A small silver fish that swam away fast

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1766-pg641-part17:t3:o4:1
# text = A small silver fish that swam away fast
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	away	away	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim away** | past | a small silver fish |  |  |  |  | away, fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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