Test 7 · ★ · Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels

What would a stretched-out slack string do to your string telephone?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: stretched slack string · What happens: stretch, do

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 18 «Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels» 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	9 do	obj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 string	det
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 string	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 stretched	punct
6	out	out	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	compound
7	slack	slack	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 string	amod
8	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	nsubj
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 telephone	case
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 telephone	nmod:poss
12	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 telephone	compound
13	telephone	telephone	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	do	would	a stretched slack string					to your string telephone	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Make your friend hear you a little sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 little	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sooner	obl:unmarked
8	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 hear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	your friend					tree rules
2	hear	infinitive	your friend not said here	you				soon property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Carry the sound badly or not at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carry	obj
4	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Carry	advmod
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 not	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 badly	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	the sound		all		badly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme

Option 3

Make all the sounds come out much higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 sounds	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sounds	det
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	ccomp
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 come	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	8 higher	advmod
8	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 come	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	come out	present	all sounds					high, out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 4

Carry the sound twice as well as before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sound	det
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Carry	obj
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Carry	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=ADV	1 Carry	advmod
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 as	fixed
7	as	as	ADP	_	5 as	fixed
8	before	before	ADV	_	5 as	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	the sound				twice property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme

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