Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleep…

Is the saying "he's gone to play the flute" a bit of a joke?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: be, play · To what, where: saying, flute

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1940 «Grimm's Tales, The Flute-Player: the youth wakes the sleeping Princess and wins her kingdom» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 saying	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 saying	det
3	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 gone	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 gone	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	cop
7	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saying	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 play	mark
9	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 gone	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 flute	det
11	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 play	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 bit	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flute	appos
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 joke	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 joke	det
17	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bit	nmod
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 saying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the saying		tree rules
2	is in a quote	present	he		gone property	tree rules
3	play in a quote	to-infinitive	he not said here	the flute		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Theme

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

Yeah, it's a joke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 joke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 joke	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 joke	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 joke	det
6	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it means someone who went away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 means	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 someone	acl:relcl
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	someone					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic
2	go away	past						away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, it's about a real flute player

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 player	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 player	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 player	cop
5	about	about	ADV	_	9 player	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 player	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 player	amod
8	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 player	compound
9	player	player	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a real flute player				about property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it means someone who never came back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	4 means	obj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 came	advmod
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 someone	acl:relcl
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it	someone					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic
2	not come back	past							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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