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Test 4 · ★★ · Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didg…

A cartoon shows a didgeridoo player turning blue holding his breath. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, didgeridoo player · What happens: show, turn, hold, be · To what, where: didgeridoo player, breath

This is test 4 · ★★ 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: A cartoon shows a didgeridoo player turning blue holding his breath.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 player	det
5	didgeridoo	didgeridoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 player	compound
6	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
7	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 player	acl
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 turning	xcomp
9	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 turning	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 breath	nmod:poss
11	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holding	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	a didgeridoo player					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent player=Recipient
2	turn	gerund	a didgeridoo player not said here					blue property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	hold	gerund	a didgeridoo player not said here	cartoon's breath					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme

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's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	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

Nothing, players really hold their breath

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 players	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 hold	advmod
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 breath	nmod:poss
7	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Nothing players	players's breath					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Players breathe in through the nose while blowing out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breathe	nsubj
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 breathe	advmod
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 nose	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nose	det
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathe	obl
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	8 blowing	mark
8	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 breathe	advcl
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 blowing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe in	present	Players			the nose			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	blow out	gerund	Players not said here						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Didgeridoos are played by hitting them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Didgeridoos	didgeridoo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 played	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 played	aux:pass
3	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 hitting	mark
5	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 played	advcl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hitting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · passive		Didgeridoos					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	hit	gerund		Didgeridoos = didgeridoo					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme

Option 4

Players breathe through the didgeridoo backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 breathe	nsubj
2	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	through	through	ADP	_	5 didgeridoo	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 didgeridoo	det
5	didgeridoo	didgeridoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 breathe	obl
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	2 breathe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	present	Players			the didgeridoo		backwards property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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