Exam question 1 · Starting a band
Identify the principal cause of the high-pitched sound denominated "feedback" in amplified performance.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, pitched sound · What happens: identify, pitch, denominate, amplify, cause · To what, where: principal cause, feedback, amplified performance, pitched sound
This is exam question 1 of lesson 4 «Starting a band» 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 | Identify | identify | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cause | det |
| 3 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cause | amod |
| 4 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Identify | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sound | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sound | det |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pitched | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 high | punct |
| 9 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sound | amod |
| 10 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cause | nmod |
| 11 | denominated | denominate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sound | acl |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 feedback | punct |
| 13 | feedback | feedback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 denominated | obj |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 feedback | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 performance | case |
| 16 | amplified | amplify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 performance | amod |
| 17 | performance | performance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 denominated | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Identify | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | identify | imperative | you not said here | the principal cause of the pitched sound | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pitch | participle | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | denominate | participle | the pitched sound not said here | feedback | amplified performance | tree rules | |||
| 4 | amplify | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | cause | the pitched sound | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
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 ingress of moisture into the electrical cables
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ingress | det |
| 2 | ingress | ingress | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 moisture | case |
| 4 | moisture | moisture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ingress | nmod |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 cables | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cables | det |
| 7 | electrical | electrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cables | amod |
| 8 | cables | cable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 ingress | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The structural failure of the loudspeaker apparatus owing to excessive volume
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 failure | det |
| 2 | structural | structural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 failure | amod |
| 3 | failure | failure | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 apparatus | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 apparatus | det |
| 6 | loudspeaker | loudspeaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 apparatus | compound |
| 7 | apparatus | apparatus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 failure | nmod |
| 8 | owing | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 failure | acl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 volume | case |
| 10 | excessive | excessive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 volume | amod |
| 11 | volume | volume | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 owing | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | gerund | the structural failure of the loudspeaker apparatus not said here | to excessive volume goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to volume=Goal | ||||
| 2 | fail | the loudspeaker apparatus | nom failure «act intransitive»: of=agent |
Option 3
The production of an exceptionally high note by the vocalist
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 production | det |
| 2 | production | production | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 note | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 note | det |
| 5 | exceptionally | exceptionally | ADV | _ | 6 high | advmod |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 note | amod |
| 7 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 production | nmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 vocalist | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vocalist | det |
| 10 | vocalist | vocalist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 production | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | the vocalist | a high note | nom production «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The recurrent capture by a microphone of sound emitted by a loudspeaker
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 capture | det |
| 2 | recurrent | recurrent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 capture | amod |
| 3 | capture | capture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 microphone | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 microphone | det |
| 6 | microphone | microphone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 capture | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sound | case |
| 8 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 microphone | nmod |
| 9 | emitted | emit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 capture | acl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 loudspeaker | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 loudspeaker | det |
| 12 | loudspeaker | loudspeaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 emitted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | emit | participle | the recurrent capture by a microphone of sound not said here | by a loudspeaker | vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source | ||||
| 2 | capture | a microphone of sound | nom capture «act transitive»: by=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/4-starting-a-band/e1/