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title: It is given that a difficult bar of music is to be mastered. Select… — Console games, building, crafts, music… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is given that a difficult bar of music is to be mastered. Select the response consistent with sound practice. Exam question 3 of lesson 303 «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the quest
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# Exam question 3 · Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games

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It is given that a difficult bar of music is to be mastered. Select the response consistent with sound practice.

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** give, master, select · **To what, where:** It, difficult bar, response

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 303 «Console games, building, crafts, music and ball games» of the everyday 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/everyday/303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music/#e3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* It is given that a difficult bar of music is to be mastered.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:e3:1
# text = It is given that a difficult bar of music is to be mastered.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	mastered	master	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **master** | present · passive |  | a difficult bar of music |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* Select the response consistent with sound practice.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:e3:2
# text = Select the response consistent with sound practice.
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	response	response	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	consistent	consistent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the response |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent response=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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It shall be skipped entirely each time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:e3:o1:1
# text = It shall be skipped entirely each time
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	skipped	skip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **skip** | shall · passive |  | It |  |  | time | entirely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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It shall be practised once a week only

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:e3:o2:1
# text = It shall be practised once a week only
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	practised	practise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **practise** | shall · passive |  | It |  |  | week | once *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It shall be played quickly until correct

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:e3:o3:1
# text = It shall be played quickly until correct
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	until	until	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	correct	correct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | shall · passive |  | It |  |  | until correct | quickly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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It shall be played slowly first

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music:e3:o4:1
# text = It shall be played slowly first
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	played	play	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | shall · passive |  | It |  |  |  | first, slowly *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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