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title: Mate, what did his goloshes turn into, claws or what? — Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fort… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mate, what did his goloshes turn into, claws or what? Test 4 · ★ of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 4 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the cl…

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Mate, what did his goloshes turn into, claws or what?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Mate, goloshes · **What happens:** do, turn · **To what, where:** claws

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This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 841 «Andersen's Tales, The Goloshes of Fortune, part 52: the clerk, now a lark, is bought and placed in a lady's cage» 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/841-pg27200-part52/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t4:1
# text = Mate, what did his goloshes turn into, claws or what?
1	Mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	goloshes	golosh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | Mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | present | Mate's goloshes |  |  | claws |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into claw=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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bird feathers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t4:o1:1
# text = bird feathers
1	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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long scaly bird feet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t4:o2:1
# text = long scaly bird feet
1	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	scaly	scaly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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claws

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t4:o3:1
# text = claws
1	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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wings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:841-pg27200-part52:t4:o4:1
# text = wings
1	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	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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