Test 2 · ★ · How a song is made: writing, recording, producing

What would happen if a band only mixed a song but never mastered it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: band · What happens: happen, mix, not master · To what, where: song

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 7 «How a song is made: writing, recording, producing» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 mixed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 band	det
6	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mixed	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 mixed	advmod
8	mixed	mix	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 song	det
10	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mixed	obj
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 mastered	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 mastered	advmod
13	mastered	master	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mixed	conj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 mastered	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	mix a condition, not said to happen	past	a band	a song	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient
3	not master	past	a band not said here	song	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

It would be twice as long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 twice	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 twice	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 twice	cop
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 long	advmod
6	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 twice	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					long, twice property	tree rules

Option 2

The band would lose all their songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 band	det
2	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 songs	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 songs	nmod:poss
7	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	the band	their songs					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality
2	sing		their = they						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It would sound exactly the same anyway, so mastering is a waste

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	xcomp
7	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	3 sound	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mastering	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 mastering	advmod
10	mastering	master	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 waste	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 waste	cop
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 waste	det
13	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sound	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	would	It		anyway, same property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	master	gerund				tree rules
3	is a	present		a waste		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It might sound uneven on phones, speakers and radio

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sound	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	uneven	uneven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 phones	case
6	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sound	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 speakers	punct
8	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 phones	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 radio	cc
10	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 phones	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	might	It			phones and speakers and radio		uneven property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on phone=Location

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