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title: A kid in Seoul hears "BTS started K-pop" and sighs. Why? — Charts, number ones and famous musicia… · tree and pragmatics
description: A kid in Seoul hears "BTS started K-pop" and sighs. Why? Test 6 · ★★ 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 choice was wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Charts, number ones and famous musicians as public record

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A kid in Seoul hears "BTS started K-pop" and sighs. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** kid, BTS · **What happens:** hear, start, sigh · **To what, where:** K pop · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A kid in Seoul hears "BTS started K-pop" and sighs.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record:t6:1
# text = A kid in Seoul hears "BTS started K-pop" and sighs.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	kid	kid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Seoul	Seoul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	BTS	BTS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
9	K	K	PROPN	NNP	_	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	sighs	sigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present | a kid in Seoul |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **start** *in a quote* | past | BTS | K pop |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pop=Eventuality |
| 3 | **sigh** | present | a kid in Seoul *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record:t6:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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BTS have never had a single hit in America or anywhere else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record:t6:o1:1
# text = BTS have never had a single hit in America or anywhere else
1	BTS	bt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	hit	hit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	xcomp	_	_
12	else	else	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present · perfect | BTS | a single hit |  | America |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hit=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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BTS are not a Korean group

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record:t6:o2:1
# text = BTS are not a Korean group
1	BTS	bt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Korean	korean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present | BTS | a Korean group |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
K-pop started only last year

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record:t6:o3:1
# text = K-pop started only last year
1	K	K	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | past | K pop |  |  |  | year |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
K-pop grew for years before BTS became its biggest stars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:6-charts-number-ones-and-famous-musicians-as-public-record:t6:o4:1
# text = K-pop grew for years before BTS became its biggest stars
1	K	K	PROPN	NNP	_	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	pop	pop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	BTS	BTS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	xcomp	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | K pop |  |  |  | year |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **become** | past | BTS | pop's biggest stars |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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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