Test 5 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

Why does a gym with bare walls sound more echoey than a classroom with posters, carpets and curtains?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bare walls · What happens: sound · To what, where: more echoey

This is test 5 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	advcl:relcl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gym	det
4	gym	gym	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 does	obj
5	with	with	SCONJ	_	8 sound	mark
6	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 walls	amod
7	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sound	nsubj
8	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 does	advcl
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 echoey	amod
10	echoey	echoey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	obj
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 classroom	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 classroom	det
13	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 echoey	nmod
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 posters	case
15	posters	poster	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 classroom	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 carpets	punct
17	carpets	carpet	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 posters	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 curtains	cc
19	curtains	curtain	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 posters	conj
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	bare walls	more echoey				than a classroom with posters and carpets and curtains	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location echoey=Theme

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

The gym has more air in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gym	det
2	gym	gym	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 air	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the gym	more air		air			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Soft things in the classroom absorb sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 things	amod
2	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 absorb	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 classroom	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 classroom	det
5	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 things	nmod
6	absorb	absorb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 absorb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	absorb	infinitive	Soft things in the classroom	sound					vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal sound=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Posters make sounds louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Posters	poster	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

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

Option 4

The classroom has no sound waves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 classroom	det
2	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 waves	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waves	compound
6	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the classroom	no sound waves					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient

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