Test 10 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a g…

which tune was the painter whistling, do you know?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tune, painter, you · What happens: be, whistle, know · To what, where: painter

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 902 «Andersen's Tales, The Moon, part 113: the Moon watches a grandmother at the Louvre, a boy's death on the throne, and the people by the sea» 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 tune	det
2	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 painter	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 painter	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 painter	det
5	painter	painter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	whistling	whistle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 painter	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 know	punct
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 know	aux
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 know	nsubj
10	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 painter	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 painter	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	which tune	the painter	tree rules
2	whistle	gerund	the painter not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	present · do-support	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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

A march by Verdi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 march	det
2	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 Verdi	case
4	Verdi	Verdi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 march	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A march by Rossini that he had heard at the opera house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 march	det
2	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 Rossini	case
4	Rossini	Rossini	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 march	nmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 heard	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 heard	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 heard	aux
8	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 march	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 house	det
11	opera	opera	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 house	compound
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 heard	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past · perfect	Rossini	a march by Rossini not said here		the opera house			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer march=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A march by Rossini

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 march	det
2	march	march	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 Rossini	case
4	Rossini	Rossini	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 march	nmod

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

Option 4

A waltz by Chopin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 waltz	det
2	waltz	waltz	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 Chopin	case
4	Chopin	Chopin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 waltz	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	waltz		Chopin						nom waltz «event intransitive»: by=agent

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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