Test 6 · ★★ · Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record
A kid in Seoul hears "BTS started K-pop" and sighs. Why?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, BTS · What happens: hear, start, sigh · To what, where: K pop · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» 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 in Seoul hears "BTS started K-pop" and sighs.
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 | 5 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Seoul | case |
| 4 | Seoul | Seoul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 kid | nmod |
| 5 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
| 7 | BTS | BTS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 started | nsubj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 hears | parataxis |
| 9 | K | K | PROPN | _ | 11 pop | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 pop | punct |
| 11 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | obj |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sighs | cc |
| 14 | sighs | sigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hears | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | a kid in Seoul | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | start in a quote | past | BTS | K pop | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pop=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sigh | present | a kid in Seoul not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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: Why?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1
BTS have never had a single hit in America or anywhere else
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BTS | bt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 had | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 had | advmod |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hit | det |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hit | amod |
| 7 | hit | hit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 America | case |
| 9 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hit | nmod |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 anywhere | cc |
| 11 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 had | xcomp |
| 12 | else | else | ADV | _ | 11 anywhere | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | present · perfect | BTS | a single hit | America | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hit=Patient |
Option 2
BTS are not a Korean group
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BTS | bt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 group | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 group | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 group | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 group | det |
| 5 | Korean | korean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 group | amod |
| 6 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | BTS | a Korean group | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
K-pop started only last year
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K | K | PROPN | _ | 3 pop | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 K | punct |
| 3 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | nsubj |
| 4 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 last | advmod |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 year | amod |
| 7 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 started | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | K pop | year | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
K-pop grew for years before BTS became its biggest stars
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K | K | PROPN | _ | 3 pop | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 K | punct |
| 3 | pop | pop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | obl |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 became | mark |
| 8 | BTS | BTS | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 became | nsubj |
| 9 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | advcl |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 stars | nmod:poss |
| 11 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 stars | amod |
| 12 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 became | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | K pop | year | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | past | BTS | pop's biggest stars | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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