Exam question 4 · Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★
Ascertain which of the following arrangements of the string family proceeds correctly from the highest sound to the lowest.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, follow, proceed · To what, where: highest sound
This is exam question 4 of lesson 41 «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | Ascertain | ascertain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 proceeds | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 arrangements | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 arrangements | det |
| 5 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 arrangements | amod |
| 6 | arrangements | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 proceeds | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 family | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 family | det |
| 9 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 family | compound |
| 10 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proceeds | obl |
| 11 | proceeds | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ascertain | acl:relcl |
| 12 | correctly | correctly | ADV | _ | 16 sound | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 sound | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sound | det |
| 15 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 sound | amod |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 proceeds | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 lowest | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lowest | det |
| 19 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 sound | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ascertain | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | imperative | you not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | proceed | present | the highest sound | of the following arrangements; of the string family | 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
Double bass, cello, viola, violin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bass | amod |
| 2 | bass | bass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 cello | punct |
| 4 | cello | cello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bass | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 viola | punct |
| 6 | viola | viola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bass | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 violin | punct |
| 8 | violin | violin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bass | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Violin, viola, cello, double bass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Violin | violin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 viola | punct |
| 3 | viola | viola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Violin | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cello | punct |
| 5 | cello | cello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Violin | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bass | punct |
| 7 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bass | amod |
| 8 | bass | bass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Violin | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Cello, violin, viola, double bass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cello | cello | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 violin | punct |
| 3 | violin | violin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cello | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 viola | punct |
| 5 | viola | viola | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cello | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bass | punct |
| 7 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bass | amod |
| 8 | bass | bass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cello | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Viola, violin, cello, double bass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Viola | Viola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 violin | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 violin | punct |
| 3 | violin | violin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cello | punct |
| 5 | cello | cello | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 violin | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 bass | punct |
| 7 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bass | amod |
| 8 | bass | bass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 violin | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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