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Test 9 · ★★ · Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didg…

Zak calls the erhu "lowkey wild" (kind of wild). What makes it unusual?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Zak · What happens: call, make · To what, where: erhu · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Zak calls the erhu "lowkey wild" (kind of wild).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zak	Zak	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 calls	nsubj
2	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 erhu	det
4	erhu	erhu	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 calls	obj
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wild	punct
6	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wild	compound
7	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 erhu	amod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 wild	punct
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 erhu	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 wild	case
12	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 kind	nmod
13	)	)	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 calls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	present	Zak	the erhu					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent erhu=Recipient

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 makes it unusual?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	unusual	unusual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present		erhu				unusual property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The bow hair passes between its two strings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hair	det
2	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hair	compound
3	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 passes	nsubj
4	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	between	between	ADP	_	8 strings	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 strings	nmod:poss
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 strings	nummod
8	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 passes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present	the bow hair			hair's two strings			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between string=Location

Option 2

It is made of ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 ice	case
5	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		It				of ice	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

It is played with the feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 played	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 played	aux:pass
3	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feet	det
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · passive		It				with the feet	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: subject=Theme with foot=Co-Agent

Option 4

It has no strings at all, only a bow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 strings	det
4	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 has	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 strings	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bow	punct
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 bow	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bow	det
10	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strings	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no strings and a bow		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Patient

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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