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description: Ben wants to support his favourite singer. What reportedly helps more than streaming? Test 10 · ★ 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 option; Mova'
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# Test 10 · ★ · The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earwo…

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Ben wants to support his favourite singer. What reportedly helps more than streaming?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Ben · **What happens:** want, support, help, stream · **To what, where:** favourite singer, more

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This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» 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/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Ben wants to support his favourite singer.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t10:1
# text = Ben wants to support his favourite singer.
1	Ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wants	want	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	support	support	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | Ben |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **support** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Ben *not said here* | Ben's favourite singer |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer singer=Stimulus |

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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:* What reportedly helps more than streaming?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t10:2
# text = What reportedly helps more than streaming?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	obj	_	_
2	reportedly	reportedly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	helps	help	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	obj	_	_
5	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	streaming	stream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present |  | more |  |  |  | reportedly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stream** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Going to shows or buying from them directly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t10:o1:1
# text = Going to shows or buying from them directly
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	shows	show	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	buying	buy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	directly	directly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | gerund |  |  |  | shows |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to show=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **buy** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | from shows *= show*; directly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from they=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Downloading it from a pirate site

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t10:o2:1
# text = Downloading it from a pirate site
1	Downloading	download	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	pirate	pirate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **download** | gerund |  | it |  | a pirate site |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Telling the singer online to try harder with the next song

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t10:o3:1
# text = Telling the singer online to try harder with the next song
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	singer	singer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	online	online	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
7	harder	hard	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund |  | the singer |  |  |  | online *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent singer=Recipient |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with the next song; hard *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Streaming the song once more

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t10:o4:1
# text = Streaming the song once more
1	Streaming	stream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stream** | gerund |  | the song |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme |

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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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