Test 9 · ★ · Brown Fairy Book, The Magic Kettle: a kettle turns into a…
Wait, is the kettle cursed or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, curse · To what, where: kettle
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kettle | punct |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 kettle | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kettle | det |
| 5 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 6 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 kettle | acl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 what | cc |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 cursed | obl:agent |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the kettle | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | curse | participle | the kettle not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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
yes, it is a haunted kettle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 kettle | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kettle | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 kettle | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 kettle | det |
| 6 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 kettle | amod |
| 7 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haunt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | a haunted kettle | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
it is a wonder-working magic kettle
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 | 8 kettle | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 kettle | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 magic | det |
| 4 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 working | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wonder | punct |
| 6 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 magic | amod |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kettle | compound |
| 8 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | gerund | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | it | magic kettle | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
it is not cursed at all, just a very old kettle that was found in the corner of a dusty room
The tree, 21 words
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 | 4 cursed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cursed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 cursed | advmod |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 all | case |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 cursed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kettle | punct |
| 8 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 kettle | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 kettle | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 old | advmod |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kettle | amod |
| 12 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cursed | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 found | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 found | aux:pass |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 kettle | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 corner | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 corner | det |
| 18 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 found | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 room | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 room | det |
| 21 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 room | amod |
| 22 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 corner | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not curse | present · passive | it | all | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past · passive | a old kettle | the corner of a dusty room | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
Option 4
it is a cursed haunted kettle now
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 | 6 kettle | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kettle | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 kettle | det |
| 4 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 kettle | amod |
| 5 | haunted | haunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 kettle | amod |
| 6 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 kettle | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | haunt | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | it | a cursed haunted kettle | now | tree rules |
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