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Test 12 · ★★★ · Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★

Ruby: "Practised a million times and it still squeaks!" What should she check first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ruby, it · What happens: practise, squeak, check

This is test 12 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★» 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: Ruby: "Practised a million times and it still squeaks!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ruby	Ruby	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Practised	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 Practised	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Practised	punct
4	Practised	practise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 million	det
6	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 times	nummod
7	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 Practised	obl:unmarked
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 squeaks	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 squeaks	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 squeaks	advmod
11	squeaks	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Practised	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 Practised	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 Practised	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise in a quote	participle	Ruby				time		tree rules
2	squeak in a quote	present	it				still		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 she check first?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 check	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 check	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 check	nsubj
4	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 check	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	should	Ruby					first property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Blowing much harder so the squeak gets drowned out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 drowned	csubj:pass
2	much	much	ADV	_	3 harder	advmod
3	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Blowing	xcomp
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 gets	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 squeak	det
6	squeak	squeak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	nsubj
7	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 drowned	aux:pass
8	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 drowned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	gerund						hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	drown out	present · passive	Blowing						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

Option 2

Practising a million more times, changing nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Practising	practise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 million	det
3	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 times	nummod
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Practising	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 changing	punct
7	changing	change	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Practising	conj
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 changing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	practise	gerund					time		tree rules
2	change	gerund		nothing					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient

Option 3

Pressing the holes with her hard fingertips instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pressing	press	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 holes	det
3	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pressing	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 fingertips	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fingertips	nmod:poss
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fingertips	amod
7	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pressing	obl
8	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Pressing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	gerund		the holes				with her hard fingertips; instead property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Soft, steady breath and flat finger pads over the holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 breath	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Soft	punct
3	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 breath	amod
4	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pads	cc
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pads	amod
7	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pads	compound
8	pads	pad	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 breath	conj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 holes	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 holes	det
11	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 breath	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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