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title: What do the spectacles do to people in a crowd, like? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes o… · tree and pragmatics
description: What do the spectacles do to people in a crowd, like? Test 10 · ★ of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency t
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# Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50:…

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What do the spectacles do to people in a crowd, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** spectacles · **What happens:** be, do · **To what, where:** crowd

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 839 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 50: the watchman's soul visits the moon, then a volunteer's head sticks in the hospital railings» 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/839-pg27200-part50/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t10:1
# text = What do the spectacles do to people in a crowd, like?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spectacles	spectacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	1	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | the spectacles |  |  | a crowd |  | to people | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Make them look like cards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t10:o1:1
# text = Make them look like cards
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like cards | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Turn them into card houses

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t10:o2:1
# text = Turn them into card houses
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	card	card	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  | card houses |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into house=Trajectory |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Make the people in the crowd look like playing cards stacked in a deck

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t10:o3:1
# text = Make the people in the crowd look like playing cards stacked in a deck
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
8	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	stacked	stack	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	deck	deck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | the people |  | the crowd |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | the people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **play** | gerund | the people *not said here* | cards |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent card=Theme |
| 4 | **stack** | participle |  | cards *not said here* |  | a deck |  |  | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in deck=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Make them look like flat cards with their hearts shown on the front

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:839-pg27200-part50:t10:o4:1
# text = Make them look like flat cards with their hearts shown on the front
1	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like flat cards; with cards's hearts | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **show** | participle |  | cards's hearts *not said here* |  | the front |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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