--- title: Proper, did the owl turn into a babe or what? — Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part… · tree and pragmatics description: Proper, did the owl turn into a babe or what? Test 12 · ★ of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1873-pg7277-part10/t12/) [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/) / [Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1873-pg7277-part10/) / t12 # Test 12 · ★ · Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story,… Proper, did the owl turn into a babe or what? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** owl · **What happens:** do, turn · **To what, where:** babe This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1873 «Caravan Tales, The Caliph Stork, part 10: the owl's story, the magic word, and the Caliph's new life» 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/1873-pg7277-part10/#t12). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t12:1 # text = Proper, did the owl turn into a babe or what? 1 Proper properly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 babe babe NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | | | | | | properly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **turn** | present | the owl | | | a babe | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into babe=Trajectory | 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} Yeah, a gorgeous princess, wow ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t12:o1:1 # text = Yeah, a gorgeous princess, wow 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 gorgeous gorgeous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 wow wow INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Yeah, a beautiful lady, dead gorgeous ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t12:o2:1 # text = Yeah, a beautiful lady, dead gorgeous 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 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 lady lady NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 gorgeous gorgeous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Yeah, a lovely girl, proper fit ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t12:o3:1 # text = Yeah, a lovely girl, proper fit 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 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 proper proper ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 fit fit NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} Nope, still owl ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1873-pg7277-part10:t12:o4:1 # text = Nope, still owl 1 Nope nope INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 still still ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 owl owl NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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