Test 3 · ★ · Concerts, orchestras and live gigs

What would happen if an orchestra of eighty played without ever agreeing a tuning note?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: orchestra · What happens: happen, play, agree · To what, where: tuning note

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 11 «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» 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	_	9 played	mark
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 orchestra	det
6	orchestra	orchestra	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 eighty	case
8	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 orchestra	nmod
9	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 agreeing	mark
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 agreeing	advmod
12	agreeing	agree	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 played	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 note	det
14	tuning	tuning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 note	compound
15	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 agreeing	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	play a condition, not said to happen	past	a orchestra of eighty			vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	agree speech: agree	gerund	a orchestra of eighty not said here	a tuning note	ever	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent note=Topic

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 sound better than ever, all eighty of them

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	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sound	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 better	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 eighty	punct
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 eighty	det
9	eighty	eighty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 sound	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 eighty	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	It	all eighty of them				good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their notes would clash and sound out of tune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 notes	nmod:poss
2	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clash	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 clash	aux
4	clash	clash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sound	cc
6	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 clash	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 tune	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 tune	case
9	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	clash	would	Their notes		vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sound out	infinitive	Their notes not said here	tune	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme
3	note		Their = they		nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Nobody could hear the difference

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 hear	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 difference	det
5	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	could	Nobody	the difference					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The instruments would tune themselves after a minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 instruments	det
2	instruments	instrument	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 tune	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tune	aux
4	tune	tune	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 tune	obj
6	after	after	ADP	_	8 minute	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 minute	det
8	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tune	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tune	would	the instruments	instruments = instrument			minute		tree rules

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