Test 3 · ★ · Music practice and ball games

Why is it polite to sit quietly while your sister plays at a concert?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sister · What happens: be, sit, play · To what, where: concert

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 polite	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 polite	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 polite	expl
4	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sit	mark
6	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 polite	csubj
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	6 sit	advmod
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 plays	mark
9	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 sister	nmod:poss
10	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plays	nsubj
11	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sit	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 concert	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 concert	det
14	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 plays	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 polite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	present			polite property	tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive			quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	present	your sister	a concert		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

The rules of concerts forbid all clapping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rules	det
2	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 forbid	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 concerts	case
4	concerts	concert	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rules	nmod
5	forbid	forbid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 clapping	det
7	clapping	clapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 forbid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forbid	present	the rules of concerts	all clapping					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer clapping=Theme
2	rule		concerts						nom rule «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It shows respect for her effort

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	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	respect	respect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 effort	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 effort	nmod:poss
6	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 respect	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	It	respect				for her effort	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent respect=Recipient

Option 3

So that she cannot hear you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 hear	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 hear	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	she	you					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 4

It makes her play faster

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 play	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	her = she					tree rules
2	play	infinitive	her = she not said here					fast property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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