Test 3 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

Which is true about loudness?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 loudness	case
5	loudness	loudness	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about loudness; true property	tree rules

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

Loud sounds always have a high pitch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sounds	amod
2	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pitch	det
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pitch	amod
7	pitch	pitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Loud sounds	a high pitch				always property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitch=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Bigger vibrations make louder sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 vibrations	amod
2	vibrations	vibration	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sounds	amod
5	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Bigger vibrations	louder sounds					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

Option 3

Faster vibrations make louder sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 vibrations	amod
2	vibrations	vibration	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sounds	amod
5	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Faster vibrations	louder sounds					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

Option 4

Loudness depends only on the colour of the object

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loudness	loudness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 depends	nsubj
2	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 colour	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 colour	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 colour	det
6	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 depends	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 object	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 object	det
9	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 colour	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend	present	Loudness					on the colour of the object	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on colour=Theme

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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