Test 6 · ★★ · Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys

Which question tells you an instrument's family?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: question · What happens: tell · To what, where: family, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 question	det
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	nsubj
3	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tells	iobj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 instrument	det
6	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 family	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 instrument	case
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tells	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tells	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	which question	a instrument's family	you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient family=Topic

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

What colour is it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 colour	nmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 colour	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		colour					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

How does it make its sound?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 make	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 make	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sound	nmod:poss
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · do-support	it	its sound					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sound=Product

Option 3

Who played it first?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 played	obj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 played	advmod
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 played	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past		it				first property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

How much did it cost?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 much	advmod
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cost	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cost	aux
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cost	nsubj
5	cost	cost	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	past · do-support	it	much					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value

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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