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title: Which is true about actors singing in films? — Voices, sound and music in films and c… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which is true about actors singing in films? Test 9 of lesson 24 «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» 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 wrong.
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# Test 9 · Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons

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Which is true about actors singing in films?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** actors · **What happens:** be, sing · **To what, where:** films

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This is test 9 of lesson 24 «Voices, sound and music in films and cartoons» 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/24-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:24-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons:t9:1
# text = Which is true about actors singing in films?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | about actors; true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | actors *not said here* |  |  | films |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location |

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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 {#o1}

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Actors always sing every one of their own songs with no help

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:24-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons:t9:o1:1
# text = Actors always sing every one of their own songs with no help
1	Actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | Actors | every one of Actors's own songs |  |  |  | with no help; always *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** |  | Actors *= actor* |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The director sings them

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:24-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons:t9:o2:1
# text = The director sings them
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	director	director	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the director | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Some do, some are helped by other singers

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:24-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons:t9:o3:1
# text = Some do, some are helped by other singers
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	helped	help	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | Some |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **help** | present · passive | other singers | some |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Actors never sing in films, it is always somebody else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:24-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons:t9:o4:1
# text = Actors never sing in films, it is always somebody else
1	Actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	sing	sing	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
10	somebody	somebody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	conj	_	_
11	else	else	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sing** *speech: express* | present | Actors |  |  | films |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | it | somebody |  |  |  | always, else *property* | tree rules |

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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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