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title: Wait, the puppets turned into actors, what were they like? — Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman:… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wait, the puppets turned into actors, what were they like? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Test 7 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes…

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Wait, the puppets turned into actors, what were they like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, puppets · **What happens:** wait, turn · **To what, where:** actors

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 955 «Andersen's Tales, The Puppet-Showman: a puppet-man wishes his dolls alive and learns to be content» 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/955-pg27200-part166/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t7:1
# text = Wait, the puppets turned into actors, what were they like?
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	puppets	puppet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nmod	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | past | the puppets |  |  | actors |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into actor=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 {#o1}

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Calm, sorted and dead chill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t7:o1:1
# text = Calm, sorted and dead chill
1	Calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	sorted	sort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	chill	chill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sort** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Happy to do whatever the bloke said

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t7:o2:1
# text = Happy to do whatever the bloke said
1	Happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	whatever	whatever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bloke	bloke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the bloke | whatever |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent whatever=Topic |

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

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Proper divas, all demanding and well up themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t7:o3:1
# text = Proper divas, all demanding and well up themselves
1	Proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	divas	diva	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
5	demanding	demand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **demand** *speech: request* | gerund | all | Proper divas *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme diva=Precondition |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Shy, quiet and dead polite

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:955-pg27200-part166:t7:o4:1
# text = Shy, quiet and dead polite
1	Shy	shy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
6	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
```

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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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