Test 11 · ★ · Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170:…

did the flute actually work at the party?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: do, work · To what, where: flute

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 959 «Andersen's Tales, Everything in Its Right Place, part 170: the old willow, the flute and the proud party» 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	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flute	det
3	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 work	advmod
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 did	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 party	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 party	det
8	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the flute					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flute=Eventuality
2	work	present						at the party; actually property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at party=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

nope, the flute was broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 broken	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 flute	det
4	flute	flute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 broken	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux:pass
6	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		the flute					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

yep, but it was quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 quiet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 quiet	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 quiet	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	cop
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nope, he couldn't make it sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not make	could	he	it					tree rules
2	not sound	infinitive							vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

nope, he couldn't make it sound, even though everyone waited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 make	advmod
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waited	punct
10	even	even	ADV	_	13 waited	advmod
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	13 waited	mark
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 waited	nsubj
13	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not make	could	he	it	tree rules
2	not sound	infinitive			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	wait	past	everyone		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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