Test 11 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a…
Yo, what did Jimmu's honest move look like?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: honest move, Jimmu · What happens: look, move
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Yo | yo | INTJ | _ | 9 look | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yo | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 look | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 look | aux |
| 5 | Jimmu | Jimmu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 move | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Jimmu | case |
| 7 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 move | amod |
| 8 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 look | nsubj |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 look | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 look | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · do-support | Jimmu's honest move | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | move | Jimmu | nom move «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
he returned the kettle with gold, paying the seller back for all the good luck it had brought him
The tree, 19 words
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 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kettle | det |
| 4 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 paying | punct |
| 8 | paying | pay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 returned | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 seller | det |
| 10 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paying | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 paying | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 luck | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 luck | det:predet |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 luck | det |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 luck | amod |
| 16 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 paying | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 brought | aux |
| 19 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 luck | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 brought | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | he | the kettle | with gold | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme | |||
| 2 | pay back | gerund | he not said here | the seller | for all good luck | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent seller=Asset for luck=Theme | |||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | all good luck not said here | seller | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme he=Destination |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
he returned the kettle with gold
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 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kettle | det |
| 4 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | he | the kettle | with gold | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme |
Option 3
he gave the kettle to the poor
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 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 kettle | det |
| 4 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 poor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 poor | det |
| 7 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 gave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | he | the kettle | the poor | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme to poor=Recipient |
Option 4
he went to the seller's house, returned the kettle, and begged him to take a large share of the money
The tree, 21 words
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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 seller | det |
| 5 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 seller | case |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 returned | punct |
| 9 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 kettle | det |
| 11 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 returned | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 begged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 begged | cc |
| 14 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 begged | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 begged | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 share | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 share | amod |
| 20 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 money | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 money | det |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 share | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | he | the seller's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | return | past | he not said here | the kettle | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kettle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | he not said here | him = he | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | he not said here | a large share of the money | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Theme | ||||
| 5 | share | the money | nom share «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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