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title: To what species of animal were the mariners transformed? — A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what species of animal were the mariners transformed? Exam question 1 of lesson 2065 «A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast on golden thrones, then turn into hogs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each
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# Exam question 1 · A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast…

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To what species of animal were the mariners transformed?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** species · **What happens:** be, transform · **To what, where:** mariners

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 2065 «A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast on golden thrones, then turn into hogs» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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/2065-pg976-part24/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e1:1
# text = To what species of animal were the mariners transformed?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	species	species	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mariners	mariner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
9	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | species of animal | the mariners |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **transform** | participle |  | the mariners *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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Ox

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e1:o1:1
# text = Ox
1	Ox	ox	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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Horses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e1:o2:1
# text = Horses
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e1:o3:1
# text = Cow
1	Cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Swine

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e1:o4:1
# text = Swine
1	Swine	swine	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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