Test 2 · Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz
What would happen if every orchestra player tuned to a different note?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, tune · To what, where: orchestra player
This is test 2 of lesson 40 «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz» 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 player | mark |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 player | det |
| 6 | orchestra | orchestra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 player | compound |
| 7 | player | player | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 happen | obl |
| 8 | tuned | tune | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 player | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 note | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 note | det |
| 11 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 note | amod |
| 12 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tuned | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | every orchestra player | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tune | participle | every orchestra player not said here | to a different note | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The conductor would play all the parts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 conductor | det |
| 2 | conductor | conductor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 play | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 play | aux |
| 4 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 parts | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 parts | det |
| 7 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 play | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | would | the conductor | all parts | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
Option 2
Nothing, because tuning does not matter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 matter | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tuning | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 4 tuning | mark |
| 4 | tuning | tune | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Nothing | conj |
| 5 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 matter | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 matter | advmod |
| 7 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tune | gerund | Nothing not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not matter | present · do-support | Nothing | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
The music would sound richer and better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 music | det |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | aux |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 sound | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 better | cc |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 richer | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | would | the music | rich property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The music would sound out of tune together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 music | det |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sound | aux |
| 4 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 tune | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tune | case |
| 7 | tune | tune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | obl |
| 8 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 sound | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound out | would | the music | tune | together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme |
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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