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title: What would happen if every orchestra player tuned to a different note? — Show day: the exhibition, the concert… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if every orchestra player tuned to a different note? Test 2 of lesson 40 «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz» 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.
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# Test 2 · Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz

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What would happen if every orchestra player tuned to a different note?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen, tune · **To what, where:** orchestra player

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This is test 2 of lesson 40 «Show day: the exhibition, the concert and the big arts quiz» 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/40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz:t2:1
# text = What would happen if every orchestra player tuned to a different 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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	orchestra	orchestra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	player	player	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	tuned	tune	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  | every orchestra player |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tune** | participle |  | every orchestra player *not said here* |  |  |  | to a different note | tree rules |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The conductor would play all the parts

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz:t2:o1:1
# text = The conductor would play all the parts
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	conductor	conductor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | would | the conductor | all parts |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nothing, because tuning does not matter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz:t2:o2:1
# text = Nothing, because tuning does not matter
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	tuning	tune	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
5	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	matter	matter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tune** | gerund | Nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **matter** | present · do-support | Nothing |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The music would sound richer and better

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz:t2:o3:1
# text = The music would sound richer and better
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	richer	rich	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | would | the music |  |  |  |  | rich *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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The music would sound out of tune together

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:40-show-day-the-exhibition-the-concert-and-the-big-arts-quiz:t2:o4:1
# text = The music would sound out of tune together
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tune	tune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound out** | would | the music | tune |  |  |  | together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme |

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**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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