Test 3 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a…

Was Jimmu's sleep totally ruined by the kettle, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, ruin · To what, where: sleep

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sleep	cop
2	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Jimmu	case
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ruined	nsubj:pass
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 ruined	advmod
6	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 kettle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kettle	det
9	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ruined	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 nah	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 nah	cc
12	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 ruined	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 ruined	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Jimmu's sleep					tree rules
2	ruin	participle · passive		Jimmu's sleep				by the kettle; totally property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

yes, a tanuki kept jumping around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tanuki	det
4	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
7	around	around	ADV	_	6 jumping	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	participle	a tanuki						tree rules
2	jump around	gerund	a tanuki not said here					around property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yes, the kettle turned into a tanuki

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kettle	det
4	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 tanuki	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tanuki	det
8	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the kettle			a tanuki			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tanuki=Trajectory

Option 3

yes, the kettle kept changing shape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kettle	det
4	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	changing	change	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 shape	amod
7	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the kettle	changing shape					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme
2	change	gerund							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yes, the kettle turned into a tanuki every night and he could never get any proper rest at all

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kettle	det
4	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	nsubj
5	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 tanuki	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 tanuki	det
8	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl:unmarked
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 get	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 get	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 get	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 get	advmod
15	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 turned	conj
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 rest	det
17	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 rest	amod
18	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 get	obj
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	the kettle			a tanuki	night		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into tanuki=Trajectory
2	not get	could	he	any proper rest		all			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent rest=Theme at all=Asset

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