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Test 1 · ★★ · Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didg…

Your mate goes, "more strings = harder, so the erhu's dead easy." What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: go, be · To what, where: more strings

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more» 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 mate goes, "more strings = harder, so the erhu's dead easy."

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	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strings	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 strings	punct
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 strings	amod
7	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 goes	obl
8	=	=	SYM	_	7 strings	nmod
9	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 =	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 easy	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	16 easy	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 erhu	det
13	erhu	erhu	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 easy	nsubj
14	's	's	PART	_	13 erhu	case
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 easy	amod
16	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	parataxis
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 easy	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 easy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Your mate	more strings					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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 is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The erhu actually has 50 strings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 erhu	det
2	erhu	erhu	X	Foreign=Yes	4 has	nsubj
3	actually	actually	ADV	_	4 has	advmod
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 strings	nummod
6	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the erhu	50 strings				actually property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient

Option 2

The erhu isn't played at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 erhu	det
2	erhu	erhu	X	Foreign=Yes	5 played	mark
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 played	aux:pass
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 played	advmod
5	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not play	present · passive				all			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»

Option 3

he's right, two strings is simple, anyone could pick it up in a day

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 simple	punct
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 strings	nummod
6	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 simple	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 simple	cop
8	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pick	punct
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 pick	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 pick	aux
12	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 right	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pick	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 pick	compound:prt
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 day	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 day	det
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	two strings					simple property	tree rules
3	pick up	could	anyone	it			day		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Fewer strings does not mean easier; the erhu takes great skill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 strings	amod
2	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mean	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 mean	xcomp
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 takes	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 erhu	det
9	erhu	erhu	X	Foreign=Yes	10 takes	nsubj
10	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	parataxis
11	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 skill	amod
12	skill	skill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 takes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not mean	present · do-support	Fewer strings					easy property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	take	present	the erhu	great skill					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Theme

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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