Test 7 · Songs and rhymes

What would happen if you sang "Meunier, tu dors" at one speed all the way through?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, sing · To what, where: Meunier, one speed

This is test 7 of lesson 31 «Songs and rhymes» of the French 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 sang	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 sang	nsubj
6	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 Meunier	punct
8	Meunier	Meunier	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dors	punct
10	tu	tu	X	Foreign=Yes	11 dors	flat:foreign
11	dors	dors	X	Foreign=Yes	8 Meunier	dep
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 dors	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 speed	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 speed	nummod
15	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	obl
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 way	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sang	parataxis
19	through	through	ADP	_	18 way	nmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sing speech: express a condition, not said to happen	past	you	Meunier		one speed			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location meunier=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, it is always sung at one speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sung	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sung	aux:pass
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 sung	advmod
6	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Nothing	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 speed	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 speed	nummod
9	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present · passive		it		one speed		always property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2

Children would think the miller woke up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 think	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 think	aux
3	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 miller	det
5	miller	miller	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 woke	nsubj
6	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 think	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 woke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	would	Children						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	wake up	past	the miller						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The song would turn into Frère Jacques

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 song	det
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 Jacques	case
6	Frère	Frère	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Jacques	compound
7	Jacques	Jacques	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	the song					into Frère Jacques result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into jacques=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You'd miss the fun of speeding up like the mill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 miss	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 miss	aux
3	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fun	det
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 miss	obj
6	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 speeding	mark
7	speeding	speed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 fun	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 speeding	compound:prt
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 mill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mill	det
11	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 speeding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	would	You	the fun					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fun=Stimulus
2	speed up	gerund	the fun not said here					like the mill	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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