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title: Mate, did the witch turn Parsley into a toad or a frog? — Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the th… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, did the witch turn Parsley into a toad or a frog? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1912 «Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight over Parsley, a witch turns her into a toad, and the youngest prince wins the first two tasks with the toad's help» of the books course of Mova's primary school,
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# Test 1 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight ov…

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Mate, did the witch turn Parsley into a toad or a frog?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** witch · **What happens:** turn · **To what, where:** Parsley

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1912 «Fairy Tales, Puddocky, part 49: the three princes fight over Parsley, a witch turns her into a toad, and the youngest prince wins the first two tasks with the toad's help» 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/1912-pg7277-part49/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1912-pg7277-part49:t1:1
# text = Mate, did the witch turn Parsley into a toad or a frog?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Parsley	Parsley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	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 | the witch | Parsley |  |  |  | into a toad or a frog *result*; Mate *vocative* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent parsley=Theme into toad=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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Frog

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1912-pg7277-part49:t1:o1:1
# text = Frog
1	Frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Newt, lol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1912-pg7277-part49:t1:o2:1
# text = Newt, lol
1	Newt	newt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	_
```

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

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

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Toad, obvs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1912-pg7277-part49:t1:o3:1
# text = Toad, obvs
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	obvs	obv	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Frog, innit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1912-pg7277-part49:t1:o4:1
# text = Frog, innit
1	Frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	innit	innit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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