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Test 5 · Poetry: rhyme and rhythm

Your cousin from Cork says "That poem's grand, but it's awful sing-songy." ("Grand" means fine.) What is "sing-songy" about?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, Grand · What happens: say, be, mean · To what, where: awful sing songy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 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: Your cousin from Cork says "That poem's grand, but it's awful sing-songy."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Cork	case
4	Cork	Cork	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 cousin	nmod
5	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 grand	punct
7	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 poem	det
8	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 grand	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 poem	case
10	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 says	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 songy	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 songy	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 songy	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 songy	cop
15	awful	awful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 songy	amod
16	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 songy	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 sing	punct
18	songy	songy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 says	ccomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 songy	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 songy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your cousin from Cork						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	cousin	awful sing songy					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: ("Grand" means fine.)

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	(	(	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Grand	punct
3	Grand	Grand	PROPN	_	5 means	nsubj
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 Grand	punct
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 means	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct
8	)	)	PUNCT	_	5 means	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Grand					fine property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

Sentence 3: What is "sing-songy" about?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 songy	punct
4	sing	sing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 songy	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 songy	punct
6	songy	songy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	appos
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 songy	punct
8	about	about	ADP	_	6 songy	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present							tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The poem has no title

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 poem	det
2	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 title	det
5	title	title	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the poem	no title					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent title=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A very strong, regular rhythm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rhythm	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 strong	advmod
3	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rhythm	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 strong	punct
5	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rhythm	amod
6	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

No rhythm of any kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 rhythm	det
2	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 kind	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rhythm	nmod

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

Option 4

Too few words in each line of every verse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 few	advmod
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 line	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 line	det
6	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 words	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 verse	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 verse	det
9	verse	verse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 line	nmod

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

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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