Test 8 · ★ · Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wande…

bro, did the procession have drums or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: procession · What happens: have · To what, where: drums

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 277 «Andersen, The Bottle-Neck, part 4: a lost Councillor wanders old Copenhagen and is taken for a foreigner» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bro	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 have	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 procession	det
5	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 have	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 drums	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	the procession	drums				bro vocative	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drum=Patient

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

a band of a dozen drummers and fifes marching in step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 band	det
2	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 drummers	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dozen	det
5	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 drummers	nummod
6	drummers	drummer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 band	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fifes	cc
8	fifes	fife	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drummers	conj
9	marching	march	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 drummers	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 step	case
11	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 marching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	march	gerund	dozen drummers and fifes not said here					in step	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in step=Trajectory

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a dozen drummers and fifes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dozen	det
2	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 drummers	nummod
3	drummers	drummer	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fifes	cc
5	fifes	fife	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drummers	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a dozen trumpeters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 dozen	det
2	dozen	dozen	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 trumpeters	nummod
3	trumpeters	trumpeter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

twelve pipers and horns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 pipers	nummod
2	pipers	piper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 horns	cc
4	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pipers	conj

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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