Test 6 · What sound is: wobbles in the air

Why do concert halls have special shapes and soft materials?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: concert halls · What happens: have · To what, where: special shapes

This is test 6 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 have	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
3	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 halls	compound
4	halls	hall	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 shapes	amod
7	shapes	shape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 materials	cc
9	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 materials	amod
10	materials	material	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 shapes	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	concert halls	special shapes and soft materials					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To make the hall look bigger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hall	det
4	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the hall					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	the hall not said here					big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

To stop the sound reaching the audience

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 stop	mark
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stop	obj
5	reaching	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stop	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 audience	det
7	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reaching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	to-infinitive		the sound					tree rules
2	reach	gerund		the audience					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent audience=Theme

Option 3

To keep the musicians warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 musicians	det
4	musicians	musician	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		the musicians				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent musician=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To control how sound bounces so the music sounds right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 control	mark
2	control	control	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sound	advmod
4	sound	sound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bounces	nsubj
5	bounces	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 control	ccomp
6	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 sounds	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 music	det
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sounds	nsubj
9	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bounces	advcl
10	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sounds	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	control	to-infinitive			vn enforce-63 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	bounce	present	sound		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sound	present	the music	right property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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