Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Lud…

Mad, what did the mantle actually do for John?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mantle · What happens: do · To what, where: mantle

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1899 «Fairy Tales, The Little Soldier, part 36: John rescues Ludovine from the goblins, sleeps through his chances, and is carried off to the Low Countries.» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Mad	parataxis
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mantle	det
6	mantle	mantle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 do	advmod
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mantle	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 John	case
10	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the mantle					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mantle=Eventuality
2	do	present	the mantle not said here					for John; actually property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 zapped him wherever 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 zapped	nsubj
2	zapped	zap	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 zapped	obj
4	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	6 wished	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 zapped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	zap	past	it	him = he					tree rules
2	wish	past	he					wherever property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 2

it made him fly

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	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	him = he					tree rules
2	fly	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

it kept him warm

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	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 kept	obj
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it	him = he				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

it took him anywhere he fancied

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 fancied	nsubj
6	fancied	fancy	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	fancy	past	he						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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