Exam question 3 · Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm

Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the terms "crotchet" and "quarter note".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, established facts · What happens: select, establish, concern · To what, where: response, terms

This is exam question 3 of lesson 2 «Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 response	det
3	response	response	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Select	xcomp
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 facts	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 facts	det
7	established	establish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 facts	amod
8	facts	fact	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 consistent	obl
9	concerning	concern	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 facts	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 terms	det
11	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 concerning	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 crotchet	punct
13	crotchet	crotchet	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 terms	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 crotchet	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 note	cc
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 note	punct
17	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 note	compound
18	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crotchet	conj
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 note	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the response	consistent property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme
2	establish	participle				vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot
3	concern	gerund	the established facts not said here	the terms and crotchet and quarter note		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus term=Experiencer

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 right answer

They denote one and the same note in British and American usage respectively

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 denote	nsubj
2	denote	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 note	nummod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 note	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 note	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 note	amod
7	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denote	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 usage	case
9	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 usage	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 American	cc
11	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 British	conj
12	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 denote	obl
13	respectively	respectively	ADV	_	2 denote	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	They	the one same note				in British usage; respectively property	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot note=Theme in usage=Attribute

Option 2

The former is erroneous and the latter correct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 former	det
2	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 erroneous	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 erroneous	cop
4	erroneous	erroneous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 latter	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 latter	det
7	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 erroneous	conj
8	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 erroneous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the former	erroneous property	tree rules
2	be		the former not said here		tree rules
3	be speech: disagree		the former not said here		tree rules

Option 3

They denote two notes of entirely different duration, the one twice as long as the other

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 denote	nsubj
2	denote	denote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 notes	nummod
4	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 denote	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 duration	case
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	7 different	advmod
7	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 duration	amod
8	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 notes	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 notes	conj
12	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 long	advmod
13	as	as	ADV	_	14 long	advmod
14	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 denote	advmod
15	as	as	ADP	_	17 other	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 long	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	denote	present	They	two notes of different duration and the one				long property	vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot note=Topic
2	note			different duration					nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The latter is erroneous and the former correct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 latter	det
2	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 erroneous	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 erroneous	cop
4	erroneous	erroneous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 correct	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 correct	det
7	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 correct	amod
8	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 erroneous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the latter					erroneous property	tree rules
2	be speech: disagree		the latter not said here						tree rules

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