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title: What did the beans turn into overnight? — English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Bean… · tree and pragmatics
description: What did the beans turn into overnight? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1951 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack steals gold and a golden hen from the ogre's house» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; 
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# Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack…

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What did the beans turn into overnight?

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

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1951 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, part 10: Jack steals gold and a golden hen from the ogre's house» 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/1951-pg7439-part10/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t1:1
# text = What did the beans turn into overnight?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	overnight	overnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 beans |  |  | overnight |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into overnight=Trajectory |

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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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Gold coins

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t1:o1:1
# text = Gold coins
1	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	coins	coin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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 giant beanstalk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t1:o2:1
# text = A giant beanstalk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beanstalk	beanstalk	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 tall green plant

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t1:o3:1
# text = A tall green plant
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	plant	plant	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 monster stalk

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1951-pg7439-part10:t1:o4:1
# text = A monster stalk
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	stalk	stalk	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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