Test 9 · ★★ · Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys
Isha's brother reckons percussion "can't do tunes". Which instrument proves him wrong?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, instrument · What happens: reckon, not do, prove · To what, where: percussion, tunes, brother · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 9 · ★★ 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: Isha's brother reckons percussion "can't do tunes".
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isha | Isha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brother | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Isha | case |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckons | nsubj |
| 4 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | percussion | percussion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reckons | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 7 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 do | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 reckons | parataxis |
| 10 | tunes | tune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 do | obj |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | Isha's brother | percussion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | can | tunes | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Eventuality |
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 | brother | wrong property | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The tambourine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 tambourine | det |
| 2 | tambourine | tambourine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The xylophone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 xylophone | det |
| 2 | xylophone | xylophone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The maracas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maracas | det |
| 2 | maracas | maraca | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The snare drum
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 drum | det |
| 2 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drum | compound |
| 3 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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