--- title: Mate, what did the magic ball keep doing before every danger came? — pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the… · tree and pragmatics description: Mate, what did the magic ball keep doing before every danger came? Test 13 · ★ of lesson 1766 «pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escape the goblins with the magic ball and reach the world again» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and p --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1766-pg641-part17/t13/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1766-pg641-part17/) / t13 # Test 13 · ★ · pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runa… Mate, what did the magic ball keep doing before every danger came? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Mate, danger · **What happens:** ball, keep, do, come This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 1766 «pg641 fairy tales, The Maiden and the Magic Ball: the runaways escape the goblins with the magic ball and reach the world again» 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/1766-pg641-part17/#t13). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1766-pg641-part17:t13:1 # text = Mate, what did the magic ball keep doing before every danger came? 1 Mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 3 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 7 nsubj _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 magic magic NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 8 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 doing do VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 before before SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ball** | past · do-support | Mate and the magic ball | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **keep** | present | Mate and the magic ball | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **do** | gerund | Mate and the magic ball *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **come** | past | every danger | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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} Hopping about wildly ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1766-pg641-part17:t13:o1:1 # text = Hopping about wildly 1 Hopping hop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 about about ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 wildly wildly ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hop about** | gerund | | | | | | wildly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Moving in her hand ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1766-pg641-part17:t13:o2:1 # text = Moving in her hand 1 Moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 2 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | gerund | | | | her hand | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in hand=Trajectory | ### Option 3 {#o3} Singing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1766-pg641-part17:t13:o3:1 # text = Singing 1 Singing sing VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 4 {#o4} Glowing ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1766-pg641-part17:t13:o4:1 # text = Glowing 1 Glowing glow VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **glow** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | **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. 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