Test 2 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a…

No cap, what did the tanuki do when it got loose in the house?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: do, get · To what, where: tanuki, house

This is test 2 · ★ 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tanuki	det
7	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 got	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 got	nsubj
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	advcl
12	loose	loose	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 house	det
15	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	the tanuki			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tanuki=Eventuality
2	do	present	no cap				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	past	cap		the house	loose property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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 sprinted around the room fast

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 sprinted	nsubj
2	sprinted	sprint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprinted	obl
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 sprinted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprint	past	it			the room		fast property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around room=Trajectory

Option 2

it climbed the wall like a monkey

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 climbed	nsubj
2	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wall	det
4	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 monkey	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 monkey	det
7	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 climbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	past	it	the wall				like a monkey	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

ran up the walls like a kitten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 ran	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 walls	det
4	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ran	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 kitten	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kitten	det
7	kitten	kitten	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run up	past		the walls				like a kitten	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wall=Trajectory

Option 4

it leapt onto the high shelf

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 leapt	nsubj
2	leapt	leapt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	onto	onto	ADP	_	6 shelf	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shelf	det
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shelf	amod
6	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leapt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leapt	past	it			the high shelf			tree rules

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