Test 6 · Music lessons and the recorder

Your little sister wipes her recorder on her sleeve and says it's "proper clean now". Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: little sister, recorder · What happens: wipe, say, be · To what, where: recorder, sleeve · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 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: Your little sister wipes her recorder on her sleeve and says it's "proper clean now".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 sister	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sister	amod
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wipes	nsubj
4	wipes	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 recorder	nmod:poss
6	recorder	recorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wipes	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 sleeve	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sleeve	nmod:poss
9	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wipes	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 says	cc
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wipes	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 clean	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 clean	cop
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 clean	punct
15	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 clean	amod
16	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 says	ccomp
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 clean	advmod
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 clean	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wipes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	present	Your little sister	sister's recorder	sister's sleeve			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent recorder=Theme on sleeve=Trajectory
2	say speech: assert	present	Your little sister not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	recorder			now	clean property	tree rules

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Sleeves kill germs, so she is right and it is clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleeves	sleeve	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	nsubj
2	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kill	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 right	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	8 right	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 right	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 right	cop
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kill	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 clean	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 clean	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 clean	cop
12	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	kill	present	Sleeves	germs		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	is	present	she		right property	tree rules
3	is	present	it		clean property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A wipe does not remove the germs inside the mouthpiece

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 wipe	det
2	wipe	wipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remove	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 remove	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 remove	advmod
5	remove	remove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 germs	det
7	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 remove	obj
8	inside	inside	ADP	_	10 mouthpiece	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mouthpiece	det
10	mouthpiece	mouthpiece	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 remove	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not remove	present · do-support	a wipe	the germs		the mouthpiece			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme

Option 3

Only wooden recorders carry germs, so plastic ones never need washing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 recorders	advmod
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 recorders	amod
3	recorders	recorder	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	nsubj
4	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 carry	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 need	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 need	advmod
8	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ones	amod
9	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 need	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 need	advmod
11	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	parataxis
12	washing	washing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	wooden recorders	germs					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
2	not need	present	plastic ones	washing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot washing=Theme

Option 4

Germs cannot get into a recorder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 get	advmod
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 recorder	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 recorder	det
7	recorder	recorder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	can	Germs			a recorder			vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into recorder=Destination

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