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title: Kid in Auckland goes, "Sweet as, but what are all these little fence… — Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm · tree and pragmatics
description: Kid in Auckland goes, "Sweet as, but what are all these little fences?" ("sweet as" means fine, great). What are the fences? Test 3 · ★ 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 eac
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# Test 3 · ★ · Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm

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Kid in Auckland goes, "Sweet as, but what are all these little fences?" ("sweet as" means fine, great). What are the fences?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** Kid, sweet, fences · **What happens:** go, be, mean · **To what, where:** little fences

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This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2 «Reading music: notes, beats and rhythm» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Kid in Auckland goes, "Sweet as, but what are all these little fences?"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:t3:1
# text = Kid in Auckland goes, "Sweet as, but what are all these little fences?"
1	Kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Auckland	Auckland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Kid in Auckland |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this little fences |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* ("sweet as" means fine, great).

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:t3:2
# text = ("sweet as" means fine, great).
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mean** | present | sweet |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

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*Sentence 3:* What are the fences?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:t3:3
# text = What are the fences?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	fences	fence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the fences |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

## The options {#options}

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

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Bar lines that mark off the counting boxes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:t3:o1:1
# text = Bar lines that mark off the counting boxes
1	Bar	bar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	mark	mark	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	counting	counting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	boxes	box	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark off** | present | Bar lines | the counting boxes |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Destination |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Rests where everyone in the band stops playing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:t3:o2:1
# text = Rests where everyone in the band stops playing
1	Rests	rest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
2	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | present | Rests |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | Rests *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Walls between different songs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:t3:o3:1
# text = Walls between different songs
1	Walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	between	between	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Signs that the music gets louder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:2-reading-music-notes-beats-and-rhythm:t3:o4:1
# text = Signs that the music gets louder
1	Signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | the music |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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