Test 10 · ★ · The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earwo…
Ben wants to support his favourite singer. What reportedly helps more than streaming?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ben · What happens: want, support, help, stream · To what, where: favourite singer, more
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» 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: Ben wants to support his favourite singer.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ben | Ben | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wants | nsubj |
| 2 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 support | mark |
| 4 | support | support | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wants | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 singer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 singer | amod |
| 7 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 support | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | Ben | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | support not said to happen | to-infinitive | Ben not said here | Ben's favourite singer | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer singer=Stimulus |
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 reportedly helps more than streaming?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 helps | obj |
| 2 | reportedly | reportedly | ADV | _ | 3 helps | advmod |
| 3 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 helps | obj |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 6 streaming | mark |
| 6 | streaming | stream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 more | advcl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | more | reportedly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stream | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Going to shows or buying from them directly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 shows | case |
| 3 | shows | show | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Going | obl |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 buying | cc |
| 5 | buying | buy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Going | conj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 buying | obl |
| 8 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 5 buying | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | shows | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to show=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | buy | gerund | from shows = show; directly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from they=Source |
Option 2
Downloading it from a pirate site
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downloading | download | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Downloading | obj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 site | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 site | det |
| 5 | pirate | pirate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 site | compound |
| 6 | site | site | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Downloading | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | download | gerund | it | a pirate site | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Telling the singer online to try harder with the next song
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 singer | det |
| 3 | singer | singer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Telling | obj |
| 4 | online | online | ADV | _ | 1 Telling | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 try | mark |
| 6 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Telling | advcl |
| 7 | harder | hard | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 try | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 song | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 song | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 song | amod |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 try | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | gerund | the singer | online property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent singer=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | with the next song; hard property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Streaming the song once more
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Streaming | stream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Streaming | obj |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Streaming | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream | gerund | the song | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=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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