Test 9 · Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons

Which is true about actors singing in films?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: actors · What happens: be, sing · To what, where: films

This is test 9 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 actors	case
5	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 actors	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 films	case
8	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 singing	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about actors; true property	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	gerund	actors not said here			films			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=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

Actors always sing every one of their own songs with no help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 sing	advmod
3	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 songs	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 songs	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 songs	amod
9	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 help	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 help	det
12	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	Actors	every one of Actors's own songs				with no help; always property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
2	sing		Actors = actor						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

The director sings them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 director	det
2	director	director	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sings	nsubj
3	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the director	them = they					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Some do, some are helped by other singers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 helped	punct
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 helped	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 helped	aux:pass
6	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 do	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 singers	case
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 singers	amod
9	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 helped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Some						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help	present · passive	other singers	some					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary

Option 4

Actors never sing in films, it is always somebody else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 sing	advmod
3	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 films	case
5	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 somebody	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 somebody	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 somebody	cop
9	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 somebody	advmod
10	somebody	somebody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 sing	conj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 somebody	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not sing speech: express	present	Actors			films			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location
2	is a	present	it	somebody				always, else property	tree rules

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