Test 8 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a…

Lol, what did the friend tell Jimmu to do first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend · What happens: tell, do · To what, where: Jimmu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 tell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 tell	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tell	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tell	nsubj
7	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	Jimmu	Jimmu	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tell	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tell	xcomp
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 do	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the friend		Jimmu				tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the friend not said here					first property	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

feed the tanuki

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tanuki	det
3	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	imperative	you not said here	the tanuki					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tanuki=Recipient

Option 2

ask the neighbours for money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbours	det
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 ask	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 money	case
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the neighbours				for money	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent neighbour=Recipient

Option 3

close the shop for the day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shop	det
3	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 close	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 day	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 close	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here	the shop			day		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

ask the tanuki's permission

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tanuki	det
3	tanuki	tanuki	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 permission	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 tanuki	case
5	permission	permission	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here	the tanuki's permission					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent permission=Recipient
2	permit		the tanuki						nom permission «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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