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Test 7 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

A tight elastic band gives a high twang. You loosen it. What happens to the note?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tight elastic band, You · What happens: give, loosen, happen · To what, where: high twang, twang

This is test 7 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 tight elastic band gives a high twang.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 band	det
2	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 band	amod
3	elastic	elastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 band	amod
4	band	band	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	nsubj
5	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 twang	det
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 twang	amod
8	twang	twang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gives	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 gives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	a tight elastic band	a high twang					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twang=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.

Sentence 2: You loosen it.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 loosen	nsubj
2	loosen	loosen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 loosen	obj
4	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 loosen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	loosen	present	You	twang					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Sentence 3: What happens to the note?

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	to	to	ADP	_	5 note	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 note	det
5	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It stays exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stays	nsubj
2	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stays	xcomp

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

Option 2

It becomes higher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 becomes	xcomp

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It becomes lower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 becomes	xcomp

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

Option 4

It becomes louder only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 becomes	xcomp
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 louder	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It					loud 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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