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title: What would happen to a song if lots of people streamed it every Dece… — Charts, number ones and famous musicia… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to a song if lots of people streamed it every December for years? Test 2 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 2 · ★★ · Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record

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What would happen to a song if lots of people streamed it every December for years?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lots · **What happens:** happen, stream · **To what, where:** song

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This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 6 «Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record» 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/6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record:t2:1
# text = What would happen to a song if lots of people streamed it every December for years?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	lots	lot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	streamed	stream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	December	December	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  | to a song | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stream** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | lots of people | song |  |  | december; year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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It would be banned from the charts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record:t2:o1:1
# text = It would be banned from the charts
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	banned	ban	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	charts	chart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ban** | would · passive |  | It |  | the charts |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Beneficiary from chart=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Its release date would change to that year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record:t2:o2:1
# text = Its release date would change to that year
1	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	release	release	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	change	change	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | would | Its release date |  |  |  | year |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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

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It could climb the charts long after it came out

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record:t2:o3:1
# text = It could climb the charts long after it came out
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	charts	chart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
7	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb** | could | It | the charts |  |  |  | long *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location chart=Theme |
| 2 | **come out** | past | it |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Nothing, old songs can never chart again

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record:t2:o4:1
# text = Nothing, old songs can never chart again
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	chart	chart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	again	again	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **chart** | can | old songs |  |  |  | again |  | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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