Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★
Jade is mardy ("mardy" means sulky) because her flute is metal and her teacher calls it a woodwind. Who is right?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jade, mardy, flute, teacher · What happens: be, mean, call · To what, where: metal, flute · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★★ 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: Jade is mardy ("mardy" means sulky) because her flute is metal and her teacher calls it a woodwind.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mardy | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mardy | cop |
| 3 | mardy | mardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mardy | punct |
| 6 | mardy | mardy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | nsubj |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 mardy | punct |
| 8 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mardy | parataxis |
| 9 | sulky | sulky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 means | xcomp |
| 10 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 means | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 metal | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 flute | nmod:poss |
| 13 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 metal | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 metal | cop |
| 15 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 means | ccomp |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 calls | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 18 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 calls | nsubj |
| 19 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 metal | conj |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 calls | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 woodwind | det |
| 22 | woodwind | woodwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 calls | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mardy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Jade | mardy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | mardy | sulky property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | mardy's flute | metal | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | call | present | mardy's teacher | flute | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient |
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: Who is right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 right | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | right property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Jade, because metal instruments always belong to the brass family
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 belong | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 belong | mark |
| 4 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 instruments | compound |
| 5 | instruments | instrument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 belong | nsubj |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 7 belong | advmod |
| 7 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Jade | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 family | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 family | det |
| 10 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 family | compound |
| 11 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 belong | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | metal instruments | to the brass family; always property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Neither, because the flute is really a kind of percussion
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 9 kind | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 kind | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 flute | det |
| 5 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kind | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 kind | cop |
| 7 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 kind | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kind | det |
| 9 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 percussion | case |
| 11 | percussion | percussion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kind | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the flute | a kind | of percussion; neither property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The teacher: it is how the sound is made
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 teacher | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | cop |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 made | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sound | det |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 made | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | aux:pass |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 teacher | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | teacher | make property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Jade, because a woodwind has to be made of real wood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jade | jade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 has | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 6 has | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 woodwind | det |
| 5 | woodwind | woodwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 has | nsubj |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | aux:pass |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wood | amod |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Jade | of real wood | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
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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