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title: Who gave Jack a ride to the castle? — Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Ja… · tree and pragmatics
description: Who gave Jack a ride to the castle? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1537 «Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant and takes back his castle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 7 · ★ · Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant…

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Who gave Jack a ride to the castle?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** give · **To what, where:** ride, Jack

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1537 «Fairy Book, Jack and the Beanstalk: Jack outwits the Giant and takes back his castle» 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/1537-pg540-part34/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t7:1
# text = Who gave Jack a ride to the castle?
1	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past |  | a ride | Jack |  |  | to the castle | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent jack=Recipient ride=Theme |

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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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The kind old Fairy in a chariot pulled by four big peacocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t7:o1:1
# text = The kind old Fairy in a chariot pulled by four big peacocks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | participle |  | the kind old Fairy in a chariot *not said here* |  |  |  | by four big peacocks | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Fairy, in a chariot pulled by peacocks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t7:o2:1
# text = The Fairy, in a chariot pulled by peacocks
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | participle |  | a chariot *not said here* |  |  |  | by peacocks | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Fairy, in a golden chariot pulled by swans

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t7:o3:1
# text = The Fairy, in a golden chariot pulled by swans
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	pulled	pull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | participle |  | a golden chariot *not said here* |  |  |  | by swans | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The king, on a white horse

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1537-pg540-part34:t7:o4:1
# text = The king, on a white horse
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	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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