Exam question 4 · Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm

Determine the effect upon a note of a preceding sharp sign.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: determine, precede, note · To what, where: effect, preceding sharp sign

This is exam question 4 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	Determine	determine	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 effect	det
3	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Determine	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 note	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 note	det
6	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 effect	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 sign	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sign	det
9	preceding	precede	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 sign	amod
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sign	amod
11	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 note	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Determine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	determine	imperative	you not said here	the effect	upon a note of a preceding sharp sign	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Topic
2	precede	gerund				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	note			a preceding sharp sign		nom note «communication transitive»: of=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The raising of the note by one semitone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 raising	det
2	raising	raising	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 note	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 note	det
5	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raising	nmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 semitone	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 semitone	nummod
8	semitone	semitone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raising	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	raise		one semitone	the note					nom raising «event transitive»: of=patient by=agent

Option 2

The lowering of the note by one semitone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lowering	det
2	lowering	lowering	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 note	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 note	det
5	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lowering	nmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 semitone	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 semitone	nummod
8	semitone	semitone	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lowering	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lower		one semitone	the note					nom lowering «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent

Option 3

The doubling of the duration of the note

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doubling	det
2	doubling	doubling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 duration	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 duration	det
5	duration	duration	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doubling	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 note	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 note	det
8	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 duration	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	double			the duration of the note					nom doubling «process transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

The omission of the note entirely in performance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 omission	det
2	omission	omission	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 note	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 note	det
5	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 omission	nmod
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	2 omission	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 performance	case
8	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 omission	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	omit			the note		performance			nom omission «act transitive»: of=patient in=place

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