Test 2 · ★ · Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maid…

lol why was the kettle being so extra

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kettle · What happens: be · To what, where: kettle

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 677 «Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maiden is carried off, and lazy Tiidu finds his pipes» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 extra	discourse
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 kettle	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kettle	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 kettle	det
5	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 extra	nsubj
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 extra	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 extra	advmod
8	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the kettle					tree rules
2	is	gerund	the kettle					extra property	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 · ← Mova's choice

it kept sliding down the chain into the ashes

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	sliding	slide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 kept	xcomp
4	down	down	ADP	_	6 chain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chain	det
6	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sliding	obl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 ashes	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ashes	det
9	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sliding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it						tree rules
2	slide	gerund				the ashes		down the chain	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme down chain=Source into ash=Trajectory

Option 2

it had a crack on the side

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 crack	det
4	crack	crack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	a crack		the side			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it kept rolling off the tripod

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	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 tripod	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tripod	det
6	tripod	tripod	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	it						tree rules
2	roll off	gerund		the tripod					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tripod=Agent

Option 4

nobody had hung it properly on the hook above the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hung	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hung	aux
3	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hung	obj
5	properly	properly	ADV	_	3 hung	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hook	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hook	det
8	hook	hook	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hung	obl
9	above	above	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hook	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past · perfect	nobody	it		the hook above the fire		properly property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on hook=Destination

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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