Test 5 · ★ · Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61:…

Was the coverlet a wicked magic blanket thing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: coverlet

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1672 «Wonder Tales from Many Lands, The Story of Ciccu, part 61: the princess begs Ciccu's purse for a copy» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 coverlet	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 coverlet	det
3	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thing	det
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blanket	compound
7	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thing	compound
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the coverlet					tree rules

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

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

it took him anywhere he wished

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	2 took	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wished	nsubj
6	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	it		him = he			anywhere property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
2	wish	past	he						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

it carried him through the air to any place he wished to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 place	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 place	det
9	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carried	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 wished	nsubj
11	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 place	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 go	mark
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 wished	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	it	him = he	the air	to any place	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to place=Destination
2	wish	past	he	any place not said here			tree rules
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it took him to the king's palace and nowhere else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 took	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 palace	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 king	det
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 palace	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 king	case
8	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nowhere	cc
10	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 took	advmod
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 nowhere	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	it	him = he		the king's palace		nowhere property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to palace=Destination

Option 4

it made him invisible at will

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 made	obj
4	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 made	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 will	case
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 made	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	him = he				invisible property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material he=Product

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