Test 1 · ★ · Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm
Your mate reckons notes only ever sit on the lines, never in the gaps. Is he right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: reckon, sit, be · To what, where: notes, lines
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2 «Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm» 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 reckons notes only ever sit on the lines, never in the gaps.
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 reckons | nsubj |
| 3 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reckons | obj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 sit | advmod |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 sit | advmod |
| 7 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reckons | advcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 lines | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lines | det |
| 10 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sit | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gaps | punct |
| 12 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 15 gaps | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 gaps | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 gaps | det |
| 15 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sit | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | Your mate | notes | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent note=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | sit | infinitive | Your mate not said here | the lines | ever | in the gaps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on line=Location |
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: Is he right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | mate | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, but only in the bass clef
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 clef | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 clef | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 clef | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 clef | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clef | det |
| 7 | bass | bass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 clef | compound |
| 8 | clef | clef | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, the spaces are only there to look neat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 there | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spaces | det |
| 4 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 there | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | cop |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 look | mark |
| 9 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 there | acl |
| 10 | neat | neat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 look | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the spaces | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | neat property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, notes sit on the lines and in the spaces too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 sit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 lines | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lines | det |
| 7 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sit | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spaces | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 spaces | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spaces | det |
| 11 | spaces | space | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lines | conj |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 sit | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | notes | the lines and the spaces | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on line=Location |
Option 4
No, notes only sit in the gaps
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 notes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sit | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 sit | advmod |
| 5 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 gaps | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gaps | det |
| 8 | gaps | gap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sit | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | notes | the gaps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in gap=Location |
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