Test 4 · What sound is: wobbles in the air

What would happen to a guitar if its strings were made very slack and loose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen, make · To what, where: strings

This is test 4 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

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	to	to	ADP	_	6 guitar	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 guitar	det
6	guitar	guitar	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 made	mark
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 strings	nmod:poss
9	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 made	nsubj:pass
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 made	aux:pass
11	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 slack	advmod
13	slack	slack	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 made	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 loose	cc
15	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 slack	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would						to a guitar	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		guitar's strings				slack property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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

Its notes would sound higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 notes	nmod:poss
2	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sound	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sound	aux
4	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	Its notes					high property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	note		Its = it						nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Its notes would sound lower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 notes	nmod:poss
2	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sound	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sound	aux
4	sound	sound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 sound	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	would	Its notes					low property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	note		Its = it						nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It would make no sound at all

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 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	no sound		all			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sound=Product

Option 4

It would sound exactly the same

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

#	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

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