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title: Dead funny, but why'd he turn into paper, like? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Coll… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dead funny, but why'd he turn into paper, like? Test 11 · ★ 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 and of each option; Mova's
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shirt Collar: a boastful colla…

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Dead funny, but why'd he turn into paper, like?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** he · **What happens:** turn · **To what, where:** paper

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This is test 11 · ★ 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. 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t11:1
# text = Dead funny, but why'd he turn into paper, like?
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | would | he |  |  | paper |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into paper=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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Cos he bragged a lot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t11:o1:1
# text = Cos he bragged a lot
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bragged	brag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brag** *speech: other* | past | Cos | a lot |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Cos he boasted lies

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t11:o2:1
# text = Cos he boasted lies
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	boasted	boast	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	lies	lie	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | past | Cos | lies |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Cos he told tall tales

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t11:o3:1
# text = Cos he told tall tales
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Cos | tall tales |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Cos he was old

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:976-pg27200-part187:t11:o4:1
# text = Cos he was old
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | he |  |  |  |  | old *property* | tree rules |

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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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