Test 11 · ★ · Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm

Why do teachers clap a rhythm before the class plays it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: teachers, class · What happens: clap, play · To what, where: rhythm

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 2 «Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm» of the arts 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 clap	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clap	aux
3	teachers	teacher	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clap	nsubj
4	clap	clap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rhythm	det
6	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 clap	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 plays	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 class	det
9	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plays	nsubj
10	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 clap	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 plays	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 clap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap	present · do-support	teachers	a rhythm					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rhythm=Theme
2	play	present	the class	rhythm					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 · ✓ the right answer

Saying or clapping it first makes it easier to feel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 makes	csubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 clapping	cc
3	clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Saying	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clapping	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 makes	advmod
6	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 makes	obj
8	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 makes	xcomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 feel	mark
10	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	clap	gerund		it		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
3	make	present	Saying	it	easy, first property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
4	feel	to-infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Clapping warms up the instruments so they sound better

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clapping	clapping	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warms	nsubj
2	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 warms	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 instruments	det
5	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 warms	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 sound	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sound	nsubj
8	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 warms	advcl
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm up	present	Clapping	the instruments					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent instrument=Patient
2	sound	present	instruments = instrument					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

It stops the class from playing at all

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 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 class	det
4	class	class	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obj
5	from	from	SCONJ	_	6 playing	mark
6	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 stops	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	the class					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality class=Eventuality
2	play	gerund				all			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It tells the teacher who is listening

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 tells	nsubj
2	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 teacher	det
4	teacher	teacher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tells	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 listening	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 listening	aux
7	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 teacher	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	It		the teacher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent teacher=Recipient
2	listen	present · progressive	the teacher						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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