Test 3 · ★★ · Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didg…

What would happen if you cut off all the sympathetic strings on a sitar?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, cut off · To what, where: sympathetic strings

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 cut	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 strings	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 strings	det
10	sympathetic	sympathetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 strings	amod
11	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cut	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 sitar	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sitar	det
14	sitar	sitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 strings	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut off a condition, not said to happen	present	you	all sympathetic strings on a sitar					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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

Option 1

It would get much louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 louder	advmod
5	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	It					loud property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It would lose much of its shimmering sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lose	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 sound	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 sound	nmod:poss
7	shimmering	shimmering	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	compound
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 much	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	would	It	much of its shimmering sound					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Eventuality

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It would sound exactly the same, because those strings are never touched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sound	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 sound	aux
3	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 same	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 same	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 touched	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 touched	mark
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 strings	det
10	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 touched	nsubj:pass
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 touched	aux:pass
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 touched	advmod
13	touched	touch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sound	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	It					same property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	not touch	present · passive		that strings					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme

Option 4

It would stop working completely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	completely	completely	ADV	_	4 working	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	It						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund						completely property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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