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title: how did the ducks turn into girls, like fr? — Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Mil… · tree and pragmatics
description: how did the ducks turn into girls, like fr? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1908 «Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Milan, part 45: Milan meets a magician's daughter and is set three tasks underground» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of
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# Test 5 · ★ · Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Milan, part 45: Milan m…

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
how did the ducks turn into girls, like fr?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** ducks · **What happens:** turn

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1908 «Czech and Slovak Tales, Kojata and Milan, part 45: Milan meets a magician's daughter and is set three tasks underground» 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/1908-pg7277-part45/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1908-pg7277-part45:t5:1
# text = how did the ducks turn into girls, like fr?
1	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fr	fr	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | past · do-support | the ducks |  |  |  |  | into girls *result*; like fr | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into girl=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 {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
they swam to the shore

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1908-pg7277-part45:t5:o1:1
# text = they swam to the shore
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swim** | past | they |  |  | the shore |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to shore=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
they got a magic kiss

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1908-pg7277-part45:t5:o2:1
# text = they got a magic kiss
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	kiss	kiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | they | a magic kiss |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kiss=Stimulus |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
they put on white clothes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1908-pg7277-part45:t5:o3:1
# text = they put on white clothes
1	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | present | they |  |  | white clothes |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
magic dust

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1908-pg7277-part45:t5:o4:1
# text = magic dust
1	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	dust	dust	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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