Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part…

Lol, what did the chamberlain's flute do when he tried to play?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, try, play · To what, where: flute

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1759 «Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-Hens and the Golden Apples, part 10: the prince finds a voice begging for water in the twelfth cellar» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chamberlain	det
6	chamberlain	chamberlain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flute	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 chamberlain	case
8	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 tried	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 tried	nsubj
12	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 do	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 play	mark
14	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tried	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the chamberlain's flute	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Eventuality
2	do	present			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	try	past	he		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	play not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

It sang the emperor's name

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 emperor	det
4	emperor	emperor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 name	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 emperor	case
6	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	It	the emperor's name					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location name=Theme
2	name		the emperor						nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

It played a sad song only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 played	nsubj
2	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 song	det
4	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 song	amod
5	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 played	obj
6	only	only	ADV	_	2 played	advmod

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

Option 3

It only sang the goat ears words, no matter how hard he blew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 sang	advmod
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ears	det
5	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ears	compound
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 words	compound
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sang	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 matter	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 matter	det
10	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sang	obl
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 hard	advmod
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 sang	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 blew	nsubj
14	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sang	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	It	ears words				no matter obl; hard property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme
2	blow	past	he						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It only sang the goat ears words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sang	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 sang	advmod
3	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ears	det
5	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ears	compound
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 words	compound
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sang	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	It	ears words					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location word=Theme

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