Exam question 4 · Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work

Ascertain the principal reason for which Taylor Swift re-recorded her early albums.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Taylor · What happens: ascertain, re-record · To what, where: principal reason, early albums

This is exam question 4 of lesson 39 «Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work» 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	4 reason	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reason	amod
4	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 re-recorded	obl
7	Taylor	Taylor	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 re-recorded	nsubj
8	Swift	Swift	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Taylor	flat
9	re-recorded	re-record	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reason	acl:relcl
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 albums	nmod:poss
11	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 albums	amod
12	albums	album	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 re-recorded	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the principal reason					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic
2	re-record	past	Taylor	Taylor's early albums				for the principal reason	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To secure ownership of her own recordings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 secure	mark
2	secure	secure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ownership	ownership	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 secure	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 recordings	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 recordings	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 recordings	amod
7	recordings	recording	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ownership	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	secure	to-infinitive		ownership of her own recordings					vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ownership=Theme

Option 2

To replace recordings destroyed by fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 replace	mark
2	replace	replace	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	recordings	recording	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 replace	obj
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 recordings	acl
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 fire	case
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 destroyed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	replace	to-infinitive		recordings					vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme recording=Co-Theme
2	destroy	participle		recordings not said here				by fire	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To comply with a law requiring re-recording

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 comply	mark
2	comply	comply	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 law	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 law	det
5	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comply	obl
6	requiring	require	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 law	acl
7	re-recording	re-recording	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 requiring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	comply	to-infinitive						with a law	tree rules
2	require	gerund	a law not said here	re-recording					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme re-recording=Precondition

Option 4

To correct words that she had forgotten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	3 words	mark
2	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 words	amod
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 forgotten	nsubj:pass
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 forgotten	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 forgotten	aux
7	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 words	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past · perfect · passive		correct words					tree rules

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