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Test 10 · ★ · Concerts, orchestras and live gigs

Someone says opera is "only for posh old people". What is a fair answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Someone, opera · What happens: say, be · To what, where: fair answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 11 «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» 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 says opera is "only for posh old people".

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 people	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 people	cop
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 only	punct
6	only	only	ADV	_	10 people	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 people	case
8	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 people	amod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 says	ccomp
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 people	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Someone						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	opera					for posh old people	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.

Sentence 2: What is a fair answer?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 answer	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 answer	det
4	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 answer	amod
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a fair answer					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Opera tunes never appear in cartoons, films or adverts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Opera	Opera	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tunes	compound
2	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appear	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 appear	advmod
4	appear	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 cartoons	case
6	cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 appear	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 films	punct
8	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cartoons	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 adverts	cc
10	adverts	advert	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cartoons	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not appear	present	Opera tunes			cartoons and films or adverts			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cartoon=Location

Option 2

Opera is only ever sung in English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Opera	Opera	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sung	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sung	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 sung	advmod
4	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	5 sung	advmod
5	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 English	case
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present · passive		Opera		English	ever		tree rules

Option 3

He's right, children are banned from every opera

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	_	7 banned	punct
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 banned	nsubj:pass
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 banned	aux:pass
7	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 opera	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 opera	det
10	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 banned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	ban	present · passive		children		every opera			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from opera=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Many theatres sell cheap tickets for young people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 theatres	amod
2	theatres	theatre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sell	nsubj
3	sell	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tickets	amod
5	tickets	ticket	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sell	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	present	Many theatres	cheap tickets				for young people	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent ticket=Theme for people=Asset

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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