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title: To what did the author attribute the shirt collar's transformation? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Coll… · tree and pragmatics
description: To what did the author attribute the shirt collar's transformation? Exam question 3 of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question an
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# Exam question 3 · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

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To what did the author attribute the shirt collar's transformation?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, transform · **To what, where:** author attribute, shirt collar

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 976 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful collar loses every bride and ends as paper» 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/976-pg27200-part187/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:e3:1
# text = To what did the author attribute the shirt collar's transformation?
1	To	to	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	attribute	attribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	collar	collar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	transformation	transformation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the author attribute |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **transform** |  |  | the shirt collar |  |  |  |  | nom transformation «event transitive»: poss=patient |

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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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His boastful and untruthful speech

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:e3:o1:1
# text = His boastful and untruthful speech
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	boastful	boastful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	untruthful	untruthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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His noisy and tiresome boasting habit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:e3:o2:1
# text = His noisy and tiresome boasting habit
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
2	noisy	noisy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	boasting	boasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	habit	habit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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His silly, boastful manner

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:e3:o3:1
# text = His silly, boastful manner
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
2	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	boastful	boastful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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His constant boastful and untruthful speech to the garter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:e3:o4:1
# text = His constant boastful and untruthful speech to the garter
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
2	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	boastful	boastful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	untruthful	untruthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	garter	garter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** |  | His *= he* |  |  |  |  | to the garter | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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