Test 3 · ★ · How a song is made: writing, recording, producing
Tom says, "Any sample is stealing, full stop." Which is fair?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tom, sample · What happens: say, steal, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Tom says, "Any sample is stealing, full stop."
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tom | Tom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stealing | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 stealing | punct |
| 5 | Any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 sample | det |
| 6 | sample | sample | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stealing | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 stealing | aux |
| 8 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 says | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stop | punct |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stop | amod |
| 11 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stealing | parataxis |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stop | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 stop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | Tom | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | steal in a quote | present · progressive | any sample | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: Which is fair?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 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
He's right, every sample is illegal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 right | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 right | cop |
| 3 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 illegal | punct |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sample | det |
| 6 | sample | sample | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 illegal | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 illegal | cop |
| 8 | illegal | illegal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 right | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | He | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | every sample | illegal property | tree rules |
Option 2
Only old songs can be sampled
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 | 6 sampled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 sampled | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sampled | aux:pass |
| 6 | sampled | sample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sample | can · passive | old songs | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
Samples are fine without asking anyone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samples | sample | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fine | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fine | cop |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 asking | mark |
| 5 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fine | advcl |
| 6 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 5 asking | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Samples | fine property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Samples not said here | anyone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Sampling with permission is legal and common
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sampling | sample | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 legal | csubj |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 permission | case |
| 3 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sampling | obl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 legal | cop |
| 5 | legal | legal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 common | cc |
| 7 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legal | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sample | gerund | with permission | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Sampling | legal property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | Sampling not said here | tree rules |
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