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title: ok so what did the ear twist turn the boy into? — Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon… · tree and pragmatics
description: ok so what did the ear twist turn the boy into? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que
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# Test 9 · ★ · Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, pa…

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ok so what did the ear twist turn the boy into?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ear twist · **What happens:** do, turn · **To what, where:** boy

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1845 «Old Deccan Days, The Boy with the Moon on his Forehead, part 29: Katar hides the prince, then the prince becomes a poor servant» 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/1845-pg7128-part29/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t9:1
# text = ok so what did the ear twist turn the boy into?
1	ok	ok	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	twist	twist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | present | the ear twist | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme boy=Result |

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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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an ugly guy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t9:o1:1
# text = an ugly guy
1	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	guy	guy	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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
a poor ugly man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t9:o2:1
# text = a poor ugly man
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	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 beggar

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t9:o3:1
# text = a beggar
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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a poor old man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1845-pg7128-part29:t9:o4:1
# text = a poor old man
1	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	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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