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Test 2 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

A ruler is held at the edge of a desk and twanged. The overhanging part is made shorter. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: hold, twang, overhang, make, happen · To what, where: ruler, edge, overhanging part

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: A ruler is held at the edge of a desk and twanged.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ruler	det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 held	aux:pass
4	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 held	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 desk	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 desk	det
10	desk	desk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edge	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 twanged	cc
12	twanged	twang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 held	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 held	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present · passive		a ruler		the edge of a desk			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme at edge=Location
2	twang	past							vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: The overhanging part is made shorter.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 part	det
2	overhanging	overhang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 part	amod
3	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 made	xcomp
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overhang	gerund							vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
2	make	present · passive		the overhanging part				short property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Sentence 3: What happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The note becomes higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 note	det
2	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the note					high property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 2

The ruler makes no sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ruler	det
2	ruler	ruler	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj

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

Option 3

The note stays the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 note	det
2	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	nsubj
3	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stays	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	the note					same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The note becomes lower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 note	det
2	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 becomes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the note					low property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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