Test 7 · ★★ · Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didg…
Someone wants to play a didgeridoo at a festival. What is respectful?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Someone · What happens: want, play, be · To what, where: didgeridoo, festival
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: Someone wants to play a didgeridoo at a festival.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 play | mark |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 didgeridoo | det |
| 6 | didgeridoo | didgeridoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 festival | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 festival | det |
| 9 | festival | festival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Someone | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | play not said to happen | to-infinitive | Someone not said here | a didgeridoo | a festival | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent didgeridoo=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 is respectful?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 respectful | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 respectful | cop |
| 3 | respectful | respectful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 respectful | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | respectful property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Pretend it was invented in their own town to make it more fun
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretend | pretend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 invented | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 invented | aux:pass |
| 4 | invented | invent | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pretend | ccomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 town | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 town | amod |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pretend | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Pretend | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 make | obj |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 fun | amod |
| 13 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | imperative | you not said here | their own town | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | invent | past · passive | it | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | |||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | you not said here | town | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary fun=Product |
Option 2
Paint over the traditional designs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 designs | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 designs | det |
| 4 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 designs | amod |
| 5 | designs | design | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Paint | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Learn about and respect the culture it comes from
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | about | about | ADV | _ | 1 Learn | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 respect | cc |
| 4 | respect | respect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Learn | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 culture | det |
| 6 | culture | culture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 respect | obj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 comes | nsubj |
| 8 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 culture | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | imperative | you not said here | about property | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | respect | infinitive | you not said here | the culture | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer culture=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come | present | culture | the culture not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location culture=Theme |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Ignore where it comes from completely
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 comes | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 comes | nsubj |
| 4 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ignore | advcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 completely | case |
| 6 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 4 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | imperative | you not said here | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | come | present | it | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from completely=Initial_Location |
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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