Test 4 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a…

Was the booth show a W or an L for Jimmu?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, show · To what, where: booth, W

This is test 4 · ★ 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	3 booth	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 booth	det
3	booth	booth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 show	obl
4	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 W	det
6	W	W	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 show	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 L	cc
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 L	det
9	L	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 W	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 Jimmu	case
11	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 L	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the booth					tree rules
2	show	present			a W or a L for Jimmu				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent w=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

a huge W, he got rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 W	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 W	amod
3	W	w	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 W	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	a huge W					rich property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

a small loss, sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 loss	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 loss	amod
3	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 loss	punct
5	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	3 loss	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a loss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 loss	det
2	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

an L at first, but later it turned into a W after the show ended

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 L	det
2	L	l	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 first	case
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 L	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 turned	cc
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 turned	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 W	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 W	det
12	W	w	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
13	after	after	SCONJ	_	16 ended	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 show	det
15	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 ended	nsubj
16	ended	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	a L			a W		late property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into w=Trajectory
2	end	past	the show						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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