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Test 3 · Poetry: rhyme and rhythm

In a cartoon, a poet forces every line to rhyme with "cheese" and the poem ends up about sneezing trees. What lesson does it show?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: line, lesson · What happens: rhyme, end up, sneeze, show · To what, where: cartoon, trees

This is test 3 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a poet forces every line to rhyme with "cheese" and the poem ends up about sneezing trees.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ends	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forces	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 forces	det
6	poet	poet	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 forces	compound
7	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cartoon	conj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 line	det
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ends	nsubj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 rhyme	mark
11	rhyme	rhyme	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 line	acl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 cheese	case
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 cheese	punct
14	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rhyme	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 cheese	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 poem	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 poem	det
18	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cheese	conj
19	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 ends	compound:prt
21	about	about	SCONJ	_	22 sneezing	mark
22	sneezing	sneeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 ends	advcl
23	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sneezing	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 ends	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rhyme	to-infinitive	every line not said here					with cheese and the poem	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with cheese=Co-Patient
2	end up	present	every line					in a cartoon and a poet forces result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in cartoon=Result
3	sneeze	gerund	every line not said here	trees					tree rules

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.

Sentence 2: What lesson does it show?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 lesson	det
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 show	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 show	aux
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 show	nsubj
5	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 show	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present · do-support	what lesson						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Trees really can sneeze in poems

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sneeze	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 sneeze	advmod
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sneeze	aux
4	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 poems	case
6	poems	poem	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sneeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sneeze	can	Trees			poems			vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Rhyme should not push out the meaning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 push	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 push	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 push	advmod
4	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 push	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meaning	det
7	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 push	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not push out	should	Rhyme	the meaning					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme

Option 3

Rhymes always improve any poem, whatever they say

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 improve	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 improve	advmod
3	improve	improve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 poem	det
5	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 improve	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 whatever	punct
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 improve	conj
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 whatever	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve	present	Rhymes	any poem				always property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent poem=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	Rhymes = rhyme						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Every poem should be about cheese and trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cheese	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cheese	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 cheese	cop
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 cheese	case
6	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 trees	cc
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cheese	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	every poem					about cheese and trees	tree rules

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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