Exam question 4 · Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons

Ascertain the effect most likely to result where joyful music is substituted beneath a frightening scene.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, result, substitute · To what, where: effect, joyful music

This is exam question 4 of lesson 24 «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» 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	Ascertain	ascertain	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 Ascertain	obj
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADV	_	7 result	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 result	mark
7	result	result	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 effect	acl:relcl
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	12 substituted	advmod
9	joyful	joyful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 music	amod
10	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 substituted	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 substituted	aux:pass
12	substituted	substitute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 result	advcl
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	16 scene	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 scene	det
15	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 scene	amod
16	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 substituted	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the effect		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Topic
2	result	to-infinitive	you not said here	the effect not said here	likely property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	substitute	present · passive		joyful music	beneath a frightening scene	vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location

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 scene is perceived as comic rather than frightening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scene	det
2	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 perceived	aux:pass
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	6 comic	case
6	comic	comic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 perceived	obl
7	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	9 frightening	cc
8	than	than	ADP	_	7 rather	fixed
9	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 perceived	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	present · passive		the scene				as comic	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme as comic=Attribute

Option 2

The images themselves are altered in colour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 images	det
2	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 altered	nsubj:pass
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 images	nmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 altered	aux:pass
5	altered	alter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 colour	case
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 altered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	alter	present · passive		the images images		colour			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3

The scene ceases to be perceived at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scene	det
2	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ceases	nsubj
3	ceases	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	6 perceived	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 perceived	aux:pass
6	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 ceases	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 perceived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease	present	the scene						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	perceive	to-infinitive · passive	the scene not said here			all			vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»

Option 4

The scene is perceived as more frightening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 scene	det
2	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perceived	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 perceived	aux:pass
4	perceived	perceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 frightening	mark
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 frightening	amod
7	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 perceived	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	present · passive		the scene				frightening property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus

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