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Test 4 · ★ · How a song is made: writing, recording, producing

A cartoon shows a producer asleep while the band does everything. What does it get wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cartoon, band · What happens: show, do, get · To what, where: producer, everything

This is test 4 · ★ 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: A cartoon shows a producer asleep while the band does everything.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 producer	det
5	producer	producer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shows	xcomp
7	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 does	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 band	det
9	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 does	nsubj
10	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shows	advcl
11	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 does	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon	a producer				asleep property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent producer=Recipient
2	do	present	the band	everything					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality

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: What does it get wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 get	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	nsubj
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 get	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · do-support	band					wrong property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

Producers are only there to make tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Producers	producer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 there	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 there	advmod
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 make	mark
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 there	advcl
7	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Producers					there property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive	Producers not said here	tea					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tea=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Producers play every instrument in every song while the band watches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Producers	producer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 play	nsubj
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 instrument	det
4	instrument	instrument	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 song	case
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 song	det
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obl
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 watches	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 band	det
10	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 watches	nsubj
11	watches	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 play	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	Producers	every instrument		every song			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme
2	watch	present	the band						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Producers make many big decisions about the sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Producers	producer	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 decisions	amod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 decisions	amod
5	decisions	decision	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 sound	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Producers	many big decisions				about the sound	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset decision=Product

Option 4

Nothing, producers really do nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 producers	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	producers	producer	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 do	advmod
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Nothing producers	nothing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality

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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