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title: Identify the principal basis upon which a music application compiles… — The songs on everyone's phone: streami… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the principal basis upon which a music application compiles a personalised playlist. Exam question 2 of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each o
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# Exam question 2 · The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earwo…

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Identify the principal basis upon which a music application compiles a personalised playlist.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, music application · **What happens:** identify, compile, personalis · **To what, where:** principal basis, personalised playlist

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This is exam question 2 of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» 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/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/#e2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:e2:1
# text = Identify the principal basis upon which a music application compiles a personalised playlist.
1	Identify	identify	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	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	application	application	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	compiles	compile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	personalised	personalis	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	playlist	playlist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* | the principal basis |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent basis=Theme |
| 2 | **compile** | present | a music application | a personalised playlist |  |  |  | upon the principal basis | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent playlist=Product |
| 3 | **personalis** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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 {#o1}

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The personal selection of songs by each performer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:e2:o1:1
# text = The personal selection of songs by each performer
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	performer	performer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** |  | each performer | songs |  |  |  |  | nom selection «act transitive»: of=patient by=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The direct apprehension of the user's thoughts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:e2:o2:1
# text = The direct apprehension of the user's thoughts
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	apprehension	apprehension	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	user	user	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apprehend** |  |  | the user's thoughts |  |  |  |  | nom apprehension «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
| 2 | **think** |  | the user |  |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A random selection without regard to the user

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:e2:o3:1
# text = A random selection without regard to the user
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	random	random	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	selection	selection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	user	user	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The listening history of the user compared with that of other listeners

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:e2:o4:1
# text = The listening history of the user compared with that of other listeners
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	listening	listening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	user	user	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	listeners	listener	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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