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title: Determine the effect upon a note of a preceding sharp sign. — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the effect upon a note of a preceding sharp sign. Exam question 4 of lesson 2 «Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right.
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# Exam question 4 · Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm

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Determine the effect upon a note of a preceding sharp sign.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine, precede, note · **To what, where:** effect, preceding sharp sign

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 2 «Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:e4:1
# text = Determine the effect upon a note of a preceding sharp sign.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	effect	effect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
10	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the effect |  |  |  | upon a note of a preceding sharp sign | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Topic |
| 2 | **precede** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **note** |  |  | a preceding sharp sign |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The raising of the note by one semitone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:e4:o1:1
# text = The raising of the note by one semitone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	raising	raising	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	semitone	semitone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** |  | one semitone | the note |  |  |  |  | nom raising «event transitive»: of=patient by=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The lowering of the note by one semitone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:e4:o2:1
# text = The lowering of the note by one semitone
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lowering	lowering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	semitone	semitone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lower** |  | one semitone | the note |  |  |  |  | nom lowering «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The doubling of the duration of the note

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:e4:o3:1
# text = The doubling of the duration of the note
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	doubling	doubling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **double** |  |  | the duration of the note |  |  |  |  | nom doubling «process transitive»: of=patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The omission of the note entirely in performance

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:e4:o4:1
# text = The omission of the note entirely in performance
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	omission	omission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	performance	performance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **omit** |  |  | the note |  | performance |  |  | nom omission «act transitive»: of=patient in=place |

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**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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