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title: lol why was the kettle being so extra — Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper,… · tree and pragmatics
description: lol why was the kettle being so extra Test 2 · ★ of lesson 677 «Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maiden is carried off, and lazy Tiidu finds his pipes» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova'
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# Test 2 · ★ · Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maid…

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lol why was the kettle being so extra

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kettle · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** kettle

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 677 «Europe's Fairy Book, Tiidu the Piper, part 17: a wise maiden is carried off, and lazy Tiidu finds his pipes» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/677-pg2435-part17/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t2:1
# text = lol why was the kettle being so extra
1	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
2	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	kettle	kettle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the kettle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | the kettle |  |  |  |  | extra *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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it kept sliding down the chain into the ashes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t2:o1:1
# text = it kept sliding down the chain into the ashes
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	xcomp	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slide** | gerund |  |  |  | the ashes |  | down the chain | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme down chain=Source into ash=Trajectory |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it had a crack on the side

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t2:o2:1
# text = it had a crack on the side
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | it | a crack |  | the side |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crack=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
it kept rolling off the tripod

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t2:o3:1
# text = it kept rolling off the tripod
1	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	off	off	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tripod	tripod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll off** | gerund |  | the tripod |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tripod=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
nobody had hung it properly on the hook above the fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:677-pg2435-part17:t2:o4:1
# text = nobody had hung it properly on the hook above the fire
1	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	hook	hook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	above	above	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past · perfect | nobody | it |  | the hook above the fire |  | properly *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on hook=Destination |

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**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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