Test 9 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stole…

how'd the singers start off, like, what's the vibe?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: singers · What happens: start off, be · To what, where: vibe

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1273 «Indian Fairy Tales, Iya the Camp-Eater, part 10: the stolen boy is found by his parents, and a wood-child is adopted by a chieftain» of the books 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 start	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 start	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 singers	det
4	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 start	nsubj
5	start	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 start	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 vibe	punct
8	like	like	INTJ	_	13 vibe	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 like	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 vibe	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 vibe	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 vibe	det
13	vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 start	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start off	present	the singers						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	present		the vibe					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.

The options

Option 1

They whistled a loud tune together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whistled	nsubj
2	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 tune	det
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tune	amod
5	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whistled	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	2 whistled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	They	a loud tune				together property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic

Option 2

They hummed to find the common pitch, then sang the whole song in a circle around the fire

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hummed	nsubj
2	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hummed	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pitch	det
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pitch	amod
7	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sang	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 sang	advmod
10	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hummed	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 song	det
12	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 song	amod
13	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sang	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 circle	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 circle	det
16	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sang	obl
17	around	around	ADP	_	19 fire	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fire	det
19	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 circle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	hum	past	They				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	to-infinitive	They not said here	the common pitch			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitch=Topic
3	sing speech: express	past	They not said here	the whole song	a circle around the fire	then	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They hummed to find the common pitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hummed	nsubj
2	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hummed	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pitch	det
6	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pitch	amod
7	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hum	past	They						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	find	to-infinitive	They not said here	the common pitch					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitch=Topic

Option 4

They hummed softly in a circle, testing each voice until they found the common pitch together

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hummed	nsubj
2	hummed	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	softly	softly	ADV	_	2 hummed	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 circle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 circle	det
6	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hummed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 testing	punct
8	testing	test	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 hummed	advcl
9	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	10 voice	det
10	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 testing	obj
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 found	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	nsubj
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hummed	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pitch	det
15	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pitch	amod
16	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
17	together	together	ADV	_	13 found	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hum	past	They		a circle	softly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in circle=Location
2	test	gerund	They not said here	each voice			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme
3	find	past	they	the common pitch		together property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitch=Topic

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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