Test 1 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a…

Bruh, why did the old man even keep that rusty kettle, was it lowkey sus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kettle · What happens: keep, be · To what, where: rusty kettle, lowkey sus

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 724 «Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a tanuki and makes its owner rich» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	9 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 keep	advmod
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 kettle	det
11	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kettle	amod
12	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sus	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 sus	cop
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 sus	nsubj
16	lowkey	lowkey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sus	amod
17	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 keep	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support		that rusty kettle					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme
2	is a	past	kettle	lowkey sus					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

he thought it was useful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 useful	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 useful	cop
5	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					useful property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he wanted a spare one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 one	det
4	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 one	amod
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	a spare one					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=Theme

Option 3

it looked kind of cool

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 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 cool	case
5	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	it	kind of cool					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kind=Attribute

Option 4

he was a collector who loved old rusty things and wanted the whole set

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 collector	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 collector	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 collector	det
4	collector	collector	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 loved	nsubj
6	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 collector	acl:relcl
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
8	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loved	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wanted	cc
11	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 loved	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 set	det
13	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 set	amod
14	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a collector	tree rules
2	love	past	a collector	old rusty things	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	want	past	a collector not said here	the whole set	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot set=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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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