Test 8 · ★ · Music practice and ball games

Why does a choir sound bad if each singer goes at their own speed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: choir, singer · What happens: sound, go · To what, where: own speed

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 246 «Music practice and ball games» of the everyday 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sound	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 choir	det
4	choir	choir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	nsubj
5	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sound	xcomp
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 goes	mark
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 singer	det
9	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goes	nsubj
10	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sound	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 speed	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 speed	nmod:poss
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 speed	amod
14	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goes	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sound	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present · do-support	a choir					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	go a condition, not said to happen	present	each singer			their own speed			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at speed=Location

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Group music only works when everyone follows together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 music	compound
2	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 works	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 works	advmod
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 follows	advmod
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 follows	nsubj
7	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 works	advcl
8	together	together	ADV	_	7 follows	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Group music						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	follow	present	everyone					together property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The conductor stops listening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 conductor	det
2	conductor	conductor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stops	nsubj
3	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	listening	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stops	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the conductor						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	listen	gerund	the conductor not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Choirs need everyone to sing loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Choirs	choir	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 need	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 sing	mark
5	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 need	xcomp
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 sing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	Choirs	everyone					tree rules
2	sing speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	everyone not said here					loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The songs become too short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 songs	det
2	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 become	nsubj
3	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 short	advmod
5	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the songs					short property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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