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Test 10 · Music lessons and the recorder

Wei slumps and asks what his back has to do with "a flute thing". What happens to his playing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wei slumps, back · What happens: ask, have, do, happen, play · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 1 «Music lessons and the recorder» of the arts 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

Sentence 1: Wei slumps and asks what his back has to do with "a flute thing".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wei	Wei	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 slumps	compound
2	slumps	slump	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 asks	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 asks	cc
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 has	obj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 has	nsubj
8	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 asks	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 do	mark
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 has	xcomp
11	with	with	ADP	_	15 thing	case
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 thing	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 thing	det
14	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 thing	compound
15	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	obl
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 thing	punct
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 asks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	Wei slumps						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	his back						tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	his back not said here					with a flute thing	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.

Sentence 2: What happens to his playing?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 playing	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 playing	nmod:poss
5	playing	playing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						to back's playing	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play		back						nom playing «act intransitive»: poss=agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, because only the fingers make the sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 make	mark
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 fingers	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fingers	det
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sound	det
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the fingers	the sound					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

Option 2

The recorder plays higher and sweeter when you slump in your chair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 recorder	det
2	recorder	recorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plays	nsubj
3	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 plays	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sweeter	cc
6	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 higher	conj
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 slump	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 slump	nsubj
9	slump	slump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 plays	advcl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 chair	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 chair	nmod:poss
12	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	the recorder					high property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	slump	present	you			your chair			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location

Option 3

Slumping makes the recorder louder and clearer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slumping	slump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 recorder	det
4	recorder	recorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 clearer	cc
7	clearer	clear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 louder	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slump	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		the recorder				loud property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset recorder=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

His breath has less room, so the notes are weaker and less steady

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 breath	nmod:poss
2	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 room	amod
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weaker	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 weaker	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 notes	det
9	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 weaker	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 weaker	cop
11	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 has	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 less	cc
13	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 weaker	conj
14	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	His breath	less room					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
2	is	present	the notes					weak property	tree rules
3	be		the notes not said here						tree rules

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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