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Test 9 · ★ · Starting a band

Rahul's band has one old keyboard, a phone and some buckets. What should they do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: band, keyboard · What happens: have, do · To what, where: one old keyboard

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 4 «Starting a band» 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: Rahul's band has one old keyboard, a phone and some buckets.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rahul	Rahul	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 band	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Rahul	case
3	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 keyboard	nummod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keyboard	amod
7	keyboard	keyboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 phone	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 phone	det
10	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keyboard	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 buckets	cc
12	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	13 buckets	det
13	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keyboard	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Rahul's band	one old keyboard and a phone and some buckets					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent keyboard=Patient

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 should they do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	keyboard						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

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

Start playing now with what they have

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Start	xcomp
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 playing	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 what	case
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 playing	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	play	gerund	you not said here				now		vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with what=Theme
3	have	present	they						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only practise when they own real guitars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 practise	advmod
2	practise	practise	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 own	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 own	nsubj
5	own	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 practise	advcl
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 guitars	amod
7	guitars	guitar	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 own	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	own	present	they	real guitars					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot guitar=Theme

Option 3

Wait until they can afford to buy a full studio

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 afford	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 afford	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 afford	aux
5	afford	afford	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 afford	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 studio	det
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 studio	amod
10	studio	studio	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	afford	can	they						tree rules
3	buy	to-infinitive	they not said here	a full studio					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent studio=Theme

Option 4

Give up because buckets are not instruments

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 instruments	mark
4	buckets	bucket	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 instruments	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 instruments	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 instruments	advmod
7	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Source
2	not is a	present	buckets	instruments					tree rules

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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