Test 3 · What sound is: wobbles in the air
You blow across bottles with different amounts of water and hear different notes. Which idea does this show?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, idea · What happens: blow, hear, amount, show · To what, where: bottles, different notes, water
This is test 3 of lesson 17 «What sound is: wobbles in the air» of the physics 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
Sentence 1: You blow across bottles with different amounts of water and hear different notes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 blow | nsubj |
| 2 | blow | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | across | across | ADP | _ | 4 bottles | case |
| 4 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blow | obl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 amounts | case |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 amounts | amod |
| 7 | amounts | amount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blow | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 amounts | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hear | cc |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 blow | conj |
| 12 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 notes | amod |
| 13 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hear | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blow | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | You | bottles | with different amounts of water | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with amount=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | present | You not said here | different notes | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | amount | water | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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.
Sentence 2: Which idea does this show?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 idea | det |
| 2 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 show | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 show | aux |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 show | nsubj |
| 5 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 show | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | which idea | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Different-sized wobbles make different notes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sized | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Different | punct |
| 3 | sized | size | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wobbles | amod |
| 4 | wobbles | wobble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 notes | amod |
| 7 | notes | note | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | size | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | sized wobbles | different notes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset note=Product |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Water makes all sounds the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 sounds | nsubj |
| 4 | sounds | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 makes | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 same | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounds | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Water | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sound | present | all | the same | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme |
Option 3
The water itself sings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sings | nsubj |
| 3 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 2 water | nmod:unmarked |
| 4 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | present | the water water | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Bottles only make a sound when they are completely empty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sound | det |
| 5 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 empty | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 empty | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 empty | cop |
| 9 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 10 empty | advmod |
| 10 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Bottles | a sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sound=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Bottles = bottle | completely, empty property | tree rules |
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