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Test 9 · Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit

A Limerick girl says two pop songs are "a robbery, grand" because of a few shared notes. What is fair?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Limerick girl, two pop songs · What happens: say, be, share · To what, where: robbery · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 of lesson 35 «Copying vs being inspired: tracing, covers, giving credit» 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: A Limerick girl says two pop songs are "a robbery, grand" because of a few shared notes.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 girl	det
2	Limerick	Limerick	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 girl	compound
3	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 songs	nummod
6	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 songs	compound
7	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 robbery	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 robbery	cop
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 robbery	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 robbery	det
11	robbery	robbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 grand	punct
13	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 robbery	amod
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 grand	punct
15	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	13 grand	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 because	fixed
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 notes	det
18	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 notes	amod
19	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 notes	amod
20	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 because	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a Limerick girl						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	two pop songs	a robbery					tree rules
3	share	participle							tree rules

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 fair?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 fair	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fair	cop
3	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fair	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fair property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Only old songs may share notes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 songs	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 songs	amod
3	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 share	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 share	aux
5	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	may	old songs	notes					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Similar notes are common, so it is not always copying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Similar	similar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 notes	amod
2	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 common	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 common	cop
4	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 copying	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 copying	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 copying	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 copying	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 copying	advmod
10	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 copying	advmod
11	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 common	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Similar notes					common property	tree rules
2	not copy	present · progressive	it					always property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Any shared note proves theft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 note	det
2	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 note	amod
3	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proves	nsubj
4	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 proves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share	participle							tree rules
2	prove	present	any shared note	theft					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theft=Theme

Option 4

Songs must never share any notes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 share	nsubj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 share	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 share	advmod
4	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 notes	det
6	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not share	must	Songs	any notes					tree rules

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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