Test 9 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

why's the big drum go boom n the little one go tick

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big drum · What happens: go · To what, where: boom, tick

This is test 9 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	6 go	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 drum	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 drum	amod
5	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	boom	boom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obj
8	n	n	ADP	_	11 one	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	conj
13	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 go	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	the big drum	boom				n the little one	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boom=Theme
2	go	infinitive	the big drum not said here	tick					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tick=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 · ← Mova's choice

The big drum vibrates faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drum	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drum	amod
3	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 vibrates	nsubj
4	vibrates	vibrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 vibrates	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	vibrate	present	the big drum					fast property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Big drums have no vibrations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 drums	amod
2	drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 vibrations	det
5	vibrations	vibration	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Big drums	no vibrations					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vibration=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Slower vibrations of the big drum make lower sounds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 vibrations	amod
2	vibrations	vibration	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 drum	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 drum	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drum	amod
6	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 vibrations	nmod
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 sounds	amod
9	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Slower vibrations of the big drum	lower sounds					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product
2	vibrate		the big drum						nom vibration «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

The small drum is louder inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drum	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drum	amod
3	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 louder	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 louder	cop
5	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 louder	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the small drum					inside, loud property	tree rules

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