Test 8 · Music lessons and the recorder

Which is true about a solo and the group part?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 8 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

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	about	about	ADP	_	6 solo	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 solo	det
6	solo	solo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 part	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 part	det
9	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 part	compound
10	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 solo	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a solo and the group part; true 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.

The options

Option 1

A solo is always played by the teacher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 solo	det
2	solo	solo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 played	aux:pass
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 played	advmod
5	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 teacher	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 teacher	det
8	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · passive	the teacher	a solo				always property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 2

Only the solo matters in a concert; the rest is background noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 solo	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 solo	det
3	solo	solo	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matters	nsubj
4	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 concert	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 concert	det
7	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matters	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 noise	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rest	det
10	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 noise	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 noise	cop
12	background	background	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 noise	compound
13	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matters	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	the solo			a concert			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	the rest	background noise					tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Both matter, because a solo sounds empty without the group

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 matter	nsubj
2	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sounds	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 sounds	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 solo	det
6	solo	solo	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounds	nsubj
7	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 matter	parataxis
8	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sounds	xcomp
9	without	without	ADP	_	11 group	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 group	det
11	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Both						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
2	sound	present	a solo					without the group; empty property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

The group part is only for children who cannot play

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
2	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 part	compound
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 children	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 children	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 children	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 children	case
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 play	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 play	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 play	advmod
11	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 children	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the group part					for children	tree rules
2	not play	can	children						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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