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description: Ascertain the principal reason for which Taylor Swift re-recorded her early albums. Exam question 4 of lesson 39 «Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Exam question 4 · Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work

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Ascertain the principal reason for which Taylor Swift re-recorded her early albums.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, Taylor · **What happens:** ascertain, re-record · **To what, where:** principal reason, early albums

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 39 «Art as a job: who makes art, money, fame and hard work» 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/39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work:e4:1
# text = Ascertain the principal reason for which Taylor Swift re-recorded her early albums.
1	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reason	reason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obl	_	_
7	Taylor	Taylor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	Swift	Swift	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	re-recorded	re-record	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	albums	album	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal reason |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Topic |
| 2 | **re-record** | past | Taylor | Taylor's early albums |  |  |  | for the principal reason | 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.

## The options {#options}

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

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To secure ownership of her own recordings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work:e4:o1:1
# text = To secure ownership of her own recordings
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	secure	secure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	ownership	ownership	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	recordings	recording	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **secure** | to-infinitive |  | ownership of her own recordings |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition ownership=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To replace recordings destroyed by fire

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work:e4:o2:1
# text = To replace recordings destroyed by fire
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	replace	replace	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	recordings	recording	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **replace** | to-infinitive |  | recordings |  |  |  |  | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme recording=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **destroy** | participle |  | recordings *not said here* |  |  |  | by fire | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To comply with a law requiring re-recording

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work:e4:o3:1
# text = To comply with a law requiring re-recording
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	comply	comply	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	requiring	require	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	re-recording	re-recording	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **comply** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with a law | tree rules |
| 2 | **require** | gerund | a law *not said here* | re-recording |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme re-recording=Precondition |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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To correct words that she had forgotten

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:39-art-as-a-job-who-makes-art-money-fame-and-hard-work:e4:o4:1
# text = To correct words that she had forgotten
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
2	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forget** | past · perfect · passive |  | correct words |  |  |  |  | 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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