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title: So what made the Councillor's whole magic thing stop? — Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fort… · tree and pragmatics
description: So what made the Councillor's whole magic thing stop? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatic
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# Test 5 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Cou…

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So what made the Councillor's whole magic thing stop?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Councillor · **What happens:** make, stop · **To what, where:** whole magic thing stop

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 278 «Andersen's Tales, The Galoshes of Fortune, part 5: the Councillor's muddled party ends in the street, and the watchman finds the shoes» 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/278-pg1597-part5/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:278-pg1597-part5:t5:1
# text = So what made the Councillor's whole magic thing stop?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Councillor	Councillor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | the Councillor's whole magic thing stop |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material stop=Product |
| 2 | **stop** |  | the Councillor |  |  |  |  |  | nom stop «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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His coat got stuck under the door

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:278-pg1597-part5:t5:o1:1
# text = His coat got stuck under the door
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | His coat |  |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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His shoes came off under the table when he tried to creep out, and then the whole party laughed

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:278-pg1597-part5:t5:o2:1
# text = His shoes came off under the table when he tried to creep out, and then the whole party laughed
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	creep	creep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come off** | past | His shoes |  |  | the table |  | off *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under table=Location |
| 2 | **try** | past | he |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **creep out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | he *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **laugh** | past | the whole party |  |  |  | then |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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His hat fell off on the stairs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:278-pg1597-part5:t5:o3:1
# text = His hat fell off on the stairs
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall off** | past | His hat |  |  | the stairs |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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

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His shoes came off under the table

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:278-pg1597-part5:t5:o4:1
# text = His shoes came off under the table
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	off	off	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come off** | past | His shoes |  |  | the table |  | off *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under table=Location |

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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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