Test 3 · ★ · Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldie…

what was up with the piano when the old man played?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: play · To what, where: old man

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 922 «Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Old House: the lost tin soldier is found again in a new garden» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 played	obj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 played	aux:pass
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 was	compound:prt
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 piano	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 piano	det
6	piano	piano	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 played	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 played	nsubj
11	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 played	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · passive		the old man					vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary what=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 · ✓ the right answer

it was proper out of tune

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	6 tune	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tune	cop
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	6 tune	advmod
4	out	out	ADP	_	6 tune	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 tune	case
6	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it			tune		properly property	tree rules

Option 2

it was loud

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 loud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loud	cop
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					loud property	tree rules

Option 3

the pedal squeaked a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pedal	det
2	pedal	pedal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squeaked	nsubj
3	squeaked	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lot	det
5	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squeaked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeak	past	the pedal	a lot					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lot=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

it was broken

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 broken	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broken	aux:pass
3	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past · passive		it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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