Test 10 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

shouted in the empty hall n heard myself back lol why

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: shout, hear back · To what, where: myself, empty hall n

This is test 10 of lesson 54 «Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes» of the world 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	shouted	shout	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 heard	parataxis
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 n	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 n	det
4	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 n	amod
5	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 n	compound
6	n	n	NOUN	_	7 heard	obl
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 heard	obj
9	back	back	ADV	_	7 heard	advmod
10	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 heard	discourse
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 heard	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	participle							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear back	past		myself		the empty hall n			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus

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

Someone was copying you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 copying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 copying	aux
3	copying	copy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 copying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past · progressive	Someone	you					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2

The floor made its own sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 sound	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sound	amod
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the floor	floor's own sound					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

Option 3

The sound got stuck in the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the sound					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The sound bounced back from the hard walls as an echo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bounced	nsubj
3	bounced	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 bounced	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	8 walls	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walls	det
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 walls	amod
8	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bounced	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 echo	case
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 echo	det
11	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bounced	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bounce back	past	the sound			the hard walls		as a echo	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wall=Trajectory

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