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title: test: the traveller's cloak blew off, so what happened to the man? — Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden… · tree and pragmatics
description: test: the traveller's cloak blew off, so what happened to the man? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and 
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# Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother…

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test: the traveller's cloak blew off, so what happened to the man?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** test · **What happens:** blow off, happen

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 853 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Ice Maiden, part 64: a mother lost in the ice, a boy sent to his uncle» 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/853-pg27200-part64/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t11:1
# text = test: the traveller's cloak blew off, so what happened to the man?
1	test	test	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	traveller	traveller	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
7	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	nsubj	_	_
12	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow off** | past | test and the traveller's cloak |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the man | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 wind carried the cloak away over the edge

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t11:o1:1
# text = the wind carried the cloak away over the edge
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry away** | past | the wind | the cloak |  | the edge |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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the wind blew him right off the high cliff

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t11:o2:1
# text = the wind blew him right off the high cliff
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	blew	blow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	right	right	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past | the wind | him *= he* |  |  |  | off the high cliff; right *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient off cliff=Co-Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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the wind could not hold him

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t11:o3:1
# text = the wind could not hold him
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hold** | could | the wind | him *= he* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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the snow buried the man

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:853-pg27200-part64:t11:o4:1
# text = the snow buried the man
1	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bury** | past | the snow | the man |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |

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