Test 11 · Poetry: rhyme and rhythm

Which line has the most obvious beat to march to?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: line · What happens: have, march · To what, where: obvious beat

This is test 11 of lesson 45 «Poetry: rhyme and rhythm» of the English 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 line	det
2	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 beat	det
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	6 obvious	advmod
6	obvious	obvious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beat	amod
7	beat	beat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 march	mark
9	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 beat	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 march	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	which line	the obvious beat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beat=Patient
2	march	to-infinitive	which line not said here	the obvious beat not said here					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Sometimes, in the quiet, I think about things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 think	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sometimes	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 quiet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 quiet	det
5	quiet	quiet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 think	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 quiet	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	10 things	case
10	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 think	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I			the quiet		about things; sometimes property	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about thing=Topic

Option 2

The kettle, which is old, gave up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kettle	det
2	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 old	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 old	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 kettle	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 kettle	punct
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 gave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the kettle					old property	tree rules
2	give up	past	the kettle						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Perhaps I shall not go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	5 go	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 go	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 go	advmod
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	shall	I					perhaps property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Left, right, left, right, march along tonight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Left	punct
3	right	right	INTJ	_	5 left	discourse
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 march	csubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 left	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	9 march	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 right	punct
9	march	march	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	along	along	ADV	_	9 march	advmod
11	tonight	tonight	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 march	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle · passive		Left					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	march	imperative	you not said here				tonight	along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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