Test 1 · ★★ · Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys
Your mate goes, "anything shiny and metal is brass, innit." Which instrument proves him wrong?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, metal, instrument · What happens: go, be, prove · To what, where: brass, mate
This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys» 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: Your mate goes, "anything shiny and metal is brass, innit."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 shiny | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shiny | punct |
| 6 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 shiny | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 goes | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 brass | cc |
| 9 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brass | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 brass | cop |
| 11 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shiny | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 innit | punct |
| 13 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brass | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 brass | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 brass | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your mate | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | metal | brass and innit | tree rules |
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: Which instrument proves him wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 instrument | det |
| 2 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 proves | nsubj |
| 3 | proves | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 proves | obj |
| 5 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 proves | xcomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 proves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove | present | which instrument | mate | wrong property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The tuba, which is brass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tuba | det |
| 2 | tuba | tuba | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brass | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 brass | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brass | cop |
| 6 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tuba | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the tuba and brass | brass | tree rules |
Option 2
The trombone, which is brass and slides in and out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trombone | det |
| 2 | trombone | trombone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 slides | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brass | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 brass | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brass | cop |
| 6 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trombone | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slides | cc |
| 8 | slides | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 slides | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 out | cc |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 9 in | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the trombone and brass | brass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slide | present | the trombone and brass | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The trumpet, which is brass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 trumpet | det |
| 2 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brass | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 brass | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 brass | cop |
| 6 | brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trumpet | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the trumpet and brass | brass | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The flute, which is metal but a woodwind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 flute | det |
| 2 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 metal | punct |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 metal | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 metal | cop |
| 6 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flute | appos |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 woodwind | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woodwind | det |
| 9 | woodwind | woodwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flute | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the flute but a woodwind | metal | tree rules |
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