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title: Little brother asks to listen to an "E" song. What is a sensible move? — The songs on everyone's phone: streami… · tree and pragmatics
description: Little brother asks to listen to an "E" song. What is a sensible move? Test 9 · ★ 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's choice was wro
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# Test 9 · ★ · The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earwo…

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Little brother asks to listen to an "E" song. What is a sensible move?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Little brother · **What happens:** ask, listen, be · **To what, where:** sensible move

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This is test 9 · ★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Little brother asks to listen to an "E" song.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t9:1
# text = Little brother asks to listen to an "E" song.
1	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	asks	ask	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	E	e	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
11	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | Little brother |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **listen** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Little brother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a E song | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to song=Theme |

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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 is a sensible move?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t9:2
# text = What is a sensible move?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	sensible	sensible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	move	move	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Play it louder since E means excellent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t9:o1:1
# text = Play it louder since E means excellent
1	Play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
4	since	since	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	E	E	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	excellent	excellent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | infinitive |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | excellent *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Delete the app altogether

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t9:o2:1
# text = Delete the app altogether
1	Delete	delete	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	app	app	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	altogether	altogether	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **delete** | imperative | you *not said here* | the app |  |  |  | altogether *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent app=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Ignore the label, it means nothing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t9:o3:1
# text = Ignore the label, it means nothing
1	Ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | imperative | you *not said here* | the label |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Theme |
| 2 | **mean** | present | label | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |

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

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Check the label and pick the clean version if unsure

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t9:o4:1
# text = Check the label and pick the clean version if unsure
1	Check	check	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	label	label	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	pick	pick	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	unsure	unsure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | imperative | you *not said here* | the label |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent label=Theme |
| 2 | **pick** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the clean version |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=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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