--- title: What would happen if an orchestra of eighty played without ever agre… — Concerts, orchestras and live gigs · tree and pragmatics description: What would happen if an orchestra of eighty played without ever agreeing a tuning note? Test 3 · ★ of lesson 11 «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/) / [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★ · Concerts, orchestras and live gigs What would happen if an orchestra of eighty played without ever agreeing a tuning note? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** orchestra · **What happens:** happen, play, agree · **To what, where:** tuning note This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 11 «Concerts, orchestras and live gigs» of the arts 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/#t3). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:arts:11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs:t3:1 # text = What would happen if an orchestra of eighty played without ever agreeing a tuning note? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 orchestra orchestra NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 eighty eighty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nmod _ _ 9 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 10 without without SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 12 advmod _ _ 12 agreeing agree VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 tuning tuning NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 note note NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | would | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **play** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a orchestra of eighty | | | | | | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | gerund | a orchestra of eighty *not said here* | a tuning note | | | ever | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent note=Topic | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} It would sound better than ever, all eighty of them ```conllu # sent_id = question:arts:11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs:t3:o1:1 # text = It would sound better than ever, all eighty of them 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 eighty eighty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 obl _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sound** | would | It | all eighty of them | | | | good *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Their notes would clash and sound out of tune ```conllu # sent_id = question:arts:11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs:t3:o2:1 # text = Their notes would clash and sound out of tune 1 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 notes note NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 clash clash VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 7 out out ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 tune tune NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clash** | would | Their notes | | | | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **sound out** | infinitive | Their notes *not said here* | tune | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme | | 3 | **note** | | Their *= they* | | | | | | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nobody could hear the difference ```conllu # sent_id = question:arts:11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs:t3:o3:1 # text = Nobody could hear the difference 1 Nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 3 nsubj _ _ 2 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 difference difference NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | could | Nobody | the difference | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus | ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} The instruments would tune themselves after a minute ```conllu # sent_id = question:arts:11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs:t3:o4:1 # text = The instruments would tune themselves after a minute 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 instruments instrument NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 tune tune VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 after after ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 minute minute NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tune** | would | the instruments | instruments *= instrument* | | | minute | | tree rules | **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. 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