Test 6 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a…

Ngl, what did the tanuki do on the balcony?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ngl, tanuki · What happens: do · To what, where: balcony

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tanuki	det
6	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 balcony	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 balcony	det
10	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	present	the tanuki			the balcony			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

turned somersaults for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 turned	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 fun	case
4	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past		somersaults				for fun	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme

Option 2

it sat still

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 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	still	still	ADV	_	2 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	it				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

it slept

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 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	it						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

turned somersaults for fun and then climbed up the balcony rail to show off to the crowd below

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	somersaults	somersault	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 turned	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 fun	case
4	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 turned	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 climbed	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 climbed	advmod
7	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 turned	conj
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 climbed	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rail	det
10	balcony	balcony	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rail	compound
11	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 climbed	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 show	mark
13	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 climbed	advcl
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 show	compound:prt
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 crowd	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crowd	det
17	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 show	obl
18	below	below	ADV	_	17 crowd	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	somersaults			for fun	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent somersault=Theme
2	climb up	past	the balcony rail		then		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location rail=Theme
3	show off	to-infinitive		the crowd			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to crowd=Recipient

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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