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title: To what location were the transformed creatures ultimately conducted? — A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what location were the transformed creatures ultimately conducted? Exam question 4 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 questio
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# Exam question 4 · A Wonder-Book, Circe's Palace, part 24: the sailors feast…

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To what location were the transformed creatures ultimately conducted?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **What happens:** transform, conduct · **To what, where:** transformed creatures

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This is exam question 4 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/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e4:1
# text = To what location were the transformed creatures ultimately conducted?
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	9	obl	_	_
3	location	location	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	transformed	transform	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	ultimately	ultimately	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	conducted	conduct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **transform** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **conduct** | past · passive |  | the transformed creatures |  |  |  | ultimately *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to what=Destination |

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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}

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The long dirty back yard behind the grand palace

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e4:o1:1
# text = The long dirty back yard behind the grand palace
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The palace back yard where the hogs were kept

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e4:o2:1
# text = The palace back yard where the hogs were kept
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	hogs	hog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past · passive |  | the hogs |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The castle courtyard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e4:o3:1
# text = The castle courtyard
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The palace back yard

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:2065-pg976-part24:e4:o4:1
# text = The palace back yard
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	back	back	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	yard	yard	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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