Test 12 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a…

Is the ending happy or sad, bro?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: ending · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 happy	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ending	det
3	ending	ending	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happy	nsubj
4	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 sad	cc
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 happy	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happy	vocative
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ending					bro vocative; happy property	tree rules
2	be		the ending not said here						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

they fought and parted ways

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 parted	cc
4	parted	part	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fought	conj
5	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 parted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	they						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	part	past	they not said here	ways					vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they lived happily till old age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	happily	happily	ADV	_	2 lived	advmod
4	till	till	ADP	_	6 age	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 age	amod
6	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	they				till old age	happily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the two men lost everything in a fire, but they stayed friends and lived happily till old age

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 men	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 lost	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stayed	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 stayed	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stayed	nsubj
12	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	parataxis
13	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stayed	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lived	cc
15	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 stayed	conj
16	happily	happily	ADV	_	15 lived	advmod
17	till	till	ADP	_	19 age	case
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 age	amod
19	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the two men	everything	a fire			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
2	stay	past	men = man	friends				vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme friend=Location
3	live	past	men = man not said here			till old age	happily property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

they died very poor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 died	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	they					poor property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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