Exam question 2 · The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earwo…

Identify the principal basis upon which a music application compiles a personalised playlist.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, music application · What happens: identify, compile, personalis · To what, where: principal basis, personalised playlist

This is exam question 2 of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» 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 basis	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 basis	amod
4	basis	basis	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 which	case
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 compiles	obl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 application	det
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 application	compound
9	application	application	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 compiles	nsubj
10	compiles	compile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 basis	acl:relcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 playlist	det
12	personalised	personalis	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 playlist	amod
13	playlist	playlist	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 compiles	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal basis		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent basis=Theme
2	compile	present	a music application	a personalised playlist	upon the principal basis	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playlist=Product
3	personalis	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The personal selection of songs by each performer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 selection	det
2	personal	personal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 selection	amod
3	selection	selection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 songs	case
5	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 selection	nmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 performer	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 performer	det
8	performer	performer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 selection	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	select		each performer	songs					nom selection «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent

Option 2

The direct apprehension of the user's thoughts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 apprehension	det
2	direct	direct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 apprehension	amod
3	apprehension	apprehension	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 thoughts	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 user	det
6	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 thoughts	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 user	case
8	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 apprehension	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	apprehend			the user's thoughts					nom apprehension «feeling transitive»: of=patient
2	think		the user						nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

A random selection without regard to the user

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 selection	det
2	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 selection	amod
3	selection	selection	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 regard	case
5	regard	regard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 selection	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 user	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 user	det
8	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 regard	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The listening history of the user compared with that of other listeners

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 history	det
2	listening	listening	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 history	compound
3	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 that	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 user	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 user	det
6	user	user	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 history	nmod
7	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 that	amod
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 that	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 listeners	case
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 listeners	amod
12	listeners	listener	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 that	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	compare	participle							vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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