Test 1 · Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons
Your mate goes, "Film music is just background, nobody even notices it." What is the best answer?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, Film music, nobody, best answer · What happens: go, be, notice · To what, where: background, music
This is test 1 of lesson 24 «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» 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
Sentence 1: Your mate goes, "Film music is just background, nobody even notices it."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 mate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | nsubj |
| 3 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 background | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 background | punct |
| 6 | Film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 music | compound |
| 7 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 background | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 background | cop |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 background | advmod |
| 10 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 goes | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 notices | punct |
| 12 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 14 notices | nsubj |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 notices | advmod |
| 14 | notices | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 background | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 notices | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 goes | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | Your mate | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Film music | background | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | notice in a quote | present | nobody | music | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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: What is the best answer?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 answer | det |
| 4 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 answer | amod |
| 5 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the best answer | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Music is added only so the cinema is not quiet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 added | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 added | aux:pass |
| 3 | added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 added | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 10 quiet | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cinema | det |
| 7 | cinema | cinema | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 quiet | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 quiet | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 quiet | advmod |
| 10 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 added | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present · passive | Music | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | not is | present | the cinema | quiet property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Music strongly shapes how a scene feels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shapes | nsubj |
| 2 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 3 shapes | advmod |
| 3 | shapes | shape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 feels | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scene | det |
| 6 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feels | nsubj |
| 7 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shapes | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shape | present | Music | strongly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | a scene | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
Only cartoons have music
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 2 cartoons | advmod |
| 2 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | cartoons | music | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Patient |
Option 4
He is right, music changes nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 changes | punct |
| 5 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 changes | nsubj |
| 6 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | parataxis |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 changes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | change | present | music | nothing | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
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