Test 9 · ★★★ · Olympiad: music puzzles ★★★
A kid shouts, "The bandura's got like a thousand strings, no cap!" ("no cap" means honestly). About how many does a concert bandura really have?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: kid, bandura, cap, many, you · What happens: shout, get, mean, do, have · To what, where: concert bandura · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★★ 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: A kid shouts, "The bandura's got like a thousand strings, no cap!"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 kid | det |
| 2 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouts | nsubj |
| 3 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 got | punct |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bandura | det |
| 7 | bandura | bandura | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 got | nsubj |
| 8 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 got | aux |
| 9 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 shouts | ccomp |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 strings | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 thousand | det |
| 12 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 strings | nummod |
| 13 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 got | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cap | punct |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 cap | det |
| 16 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shouts | parataxis |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 cap | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 cap | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | a kid | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | present · passive | the bandura | like thousand strings | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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: ("no cap" means honestly).
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cap | punct |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 cap | det |
| 4 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 means | nsubj |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cap | punct |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 6 means | advmod |
| 8 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | no cap | honestly property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Sentence 3: About how many does a concert bandura really have?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | SCONJ | _ | 4 does | mark |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 many | advmod |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bandura | det |
| 6 | concert | concert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bandura | compound |
| 7 | bandura | bandura | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 have | advmod |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | many | a concert bandura | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bandura=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | have | imperative | you not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
About 55 to 65
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 55 | advmod |
| 2 | 55 | 55 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 65 | case |
| 4 | 65 | 65 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 55 | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Exactly 21
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 21 | advmod |
| 2 | 21 | 21 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
About a thousand
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 3 thousand | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thousand | det |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only 2
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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