Test 9 · ★ · The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earwo…
Little brother asks to listen to an "E" song. What is a sensible move?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Little brother · What happens: ask, listen, be · To what, where: sensible move
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Little brother asks to listen to an "E" song.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 brother | amod |
| 2 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asks | nsubj |
| 3 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 listen | mark |
| 5 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asks | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 song | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 song | det |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 E | punct |
| 9 | E | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 song | compound |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 E | punct |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listen | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | Little brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | listen not said to happen | to-infinitive | Little brother not said here | to a E song | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |
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 is a sensible move?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 move | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 move | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 move | det |
| 4 | sensible | sensible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 move | amod |
| 5 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 move | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a sensible move | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Play it louder since E means excellent
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 means | csubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Play | obj |
| 3 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Play | advmod |
| 4 | since | since | ADP | _ | 5 E | case |
| 5 | E | E | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 louder | obl |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 means | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | infinitive | it | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 2 | mean | present | excellent property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Delete the app altogether
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Delete | delete | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 app | det |
| 3 | app | app | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Delete | obj |
| 4 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 1 Delete | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | delete | imperative | you not said here | the app | altogether property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent app=Theme |
Option 3
Ignore the label, it means nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ignore | ignore | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 label | det |
| 3 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ignore | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 means | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 means | nsubj |
| 6 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Ignore | parataxis |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 means | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ignore | imperative | you not said here | the label | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Theme | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | label | nothing | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Check the label and pick the clean version if unsure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 label | det |
| 3 | label | label | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Check | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 pick | cc |
| 5 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Check | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 version | det |
| 7 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 version | amod |
| 8 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pick | obj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 unsure | mark |
| 10 | unsure | unsure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pick | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | imperative | you not said here | the label | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick | infinitive | you not said here | the clean version | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=Patient |
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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