Test 4 · ★★★ · Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside…
You blow across a short pipe and a long pipe. Which sounds higher?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: blow, sound · To what, where: short pipe
This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Pan, panic and Ulysses: the old myths and old words inside «The Wind in the Willows»» of the language 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: You blow across a short pipe and a long pipe.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 blow | nsubj |
| 2 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 pipe | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pipe | det |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 pipe | amod |
| 6 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 blow | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pipe | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 pipe | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 pipe | amod |
| 10 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pipe | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | You | a short pipe and a long pipe | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
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: Which sounds higher?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 sounds | nsubj |
| 2 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 sounds | xcomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 sounds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | high property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1
Neither makes a sound
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Neither | a sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
Option 2
Both sound the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 sound | nsubj |
| 2 | sound | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 same | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sound | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | present | Both | the same | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The short pipe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pipe | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pipe | amod |
| 3 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
The long pipe
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pipe | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pipe | amod |
| 3 | pipe | pipe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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