Test 3 · ★ · Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm
Kid in Auckland goes, "Sweet as, but what are all these little fences?" ("sweet as" means fine, great). What are the fences?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Kid, sweet, fences · What happens: go, be, mean · To what, where: little fences
This is test 3 · ★ 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: Kid in Auckland goes, "Sweet as, but what are all these little fences?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 goes | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 Auckland | case |
| 3 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Kid | nmod |
| 4 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sweet | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Sweet | punct |
| 7 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 goes | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 Sweet | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fences | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 fences | cc |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 fences | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 fences | cop |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 16 fences | advmod |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 fences | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fences | amod |
| 16 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 goes | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Kid in Auckland | sweet property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this little fences | all property | 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: ("sweet as" means fine, great).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sweet | punct |
| 3 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | nsubj |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 sweet | fixed |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sweet | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 great | punct |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fine | conj |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | sweet | fine property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: What are the fences?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fences | det |
| 4 | fences | fence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the fences | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Bar lines that mark off the counting boxes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bar | bar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lines | amod |
| 2 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 mark | nsubj |
| 4 | mark | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lines | acl:relcl |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 boxes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 boxes | det |
| 7 | counting | counting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 boxes | compound |
| 8 | boxes | box | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 mark | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark off | present | Bar lines | the counting boxes | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Destination |
Option 2
Rests where everyone in the band stops playing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rests | rest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 stops | advmod |
| 3 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 stops | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 band | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 band | det |
| 6 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 everyone | nmod |
| 7 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 stops | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | Rests | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | play | gerund | Rests not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Walls between different songs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | between | between | ADP | _ | 4 songs | case |
| 3 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 songs | amod |
| 4 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Walls | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Signs that the music gets louder
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 gets | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 music | det |
| 4 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Signs | advcl |
| 6 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the music | loud property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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