Test 3 · ★★ · Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys
A cartoon shows a trumpeter blowing like he's cooling soup and a fanfare comes out. What's wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, trumpeter · What happens: show, blow, cool, come out, be · To what, where: soup · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★★ 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: A cartoon shows a trumpeter blowing like he's cooling soup and a fanfare comes out.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cartoon | det |
| 2 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shows | nsubj |
| 3 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trumpeter | det |
| 5 | trumpeter | trumpeter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 6 | blowing | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 trumpeter | acl |
| 7 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 10 cooling | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cooling | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 cooling | aux |
| 10 | cooling | cool | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 blowing | advcl |
| 11 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cooling | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fanfare | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fanfare | det |
| 14 | fanfare | fanfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 soup | conj |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shows | ccomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 comes | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | a cartoon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | blow | gerund | a trumpeter not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cool | present · progressive | trumpeter | soup and a fanfare | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent soup=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come out | present | a trumpeter | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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's wrong?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wrong | cop |
| 3 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 wrong | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | wrong property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Trumpets need rosin to play
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | rosin | rosin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 need | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 play | mark |
| 5 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rosin | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Trumpets | rosin | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rosin=Theme | ||||
| 2 | play | to-infinitive | Trumpets not said here | rosin not said here | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Nothing, that is exactly how trumpets work
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 work | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 work | cop |
| 5 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 8 work | advmod |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 work | advmod |
| 7 | trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 work | nsubj |
| 8 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing | exactly, work property | tree rules |
Option 3
Trumpets play only when shaken
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trumpets | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 play | nsubj |
| 2 | play | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 shaken | advmod |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 shaken | advmod |
| 5 | shaken | shake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 play | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | Trumpets | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | shake | participle | Trumpets not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Brass needs buzzing lips, not just air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brass | brass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | buzzing | buzz | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 lips | amod |
| 4 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 needs | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 air | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 air | advmod |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 air | advmod |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 needs | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Brass | buzzing lips | air obl | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lip=Theme | |||
| 2 | buzz | gerund | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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