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description: You blow across bottles with different amounts of water and hear different notes. Which idea does this show? Test 3 of lesson 17 «What sound is: wobbles in the air» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choi
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# Test 3 · What sound is: wobbles in the air

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You blow across bottles with different amounts of water and hear different notes. Which idea does this show?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You, idea · **What happens:** blow, hear, amount, show · **To what, where:** bottles, different notes, water

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This is test 3 of lesson 17 «What sound is: wobbles in the air» of the physics 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/physics/17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You blow across bottles with different amounts of water and hear different notes.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air:t3:1
# text = You blow across bottles with different amounts of water and hear different notes.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	blow	blow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	across	across	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	amounts	amount	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | present | You |  |  | bottles |  | with different amounts of water | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with amount=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | present | You *not said here* | different notes |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
| 3 | **amount** |  |  | water |  |  |  |  | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Which idea does this show?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air:t3:2
# text = Which idea does this show?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present · do-support | which idea |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Different-sized wobbles make different notes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air:t3:o1:1
# text = Different-sized wobbles make different notes
1	Different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	wobbles	wobble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **size** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | sized wobbles | different notes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset note=Product |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Water makes all sounds the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air:t3:o2:1
# text = Water makes all sounds the same
1	Water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sounds	sound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Water |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sound** | present | all | the same |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The water itself sings

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air:t3:o3:1
# text = The water itself sings
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	sings	sing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the water  water |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Bottles only make a sound when they are completely empty

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:17-what-sound-is-wobbles-in-the-air:t3:o4:1
# text = Bottles only make a sound when they are completely empty
1	Bottles	bottle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Bottles | a sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material sound=Product |
| 2 | **is** | present | Bottles *= bottle* |  |  |  |  | completely, empty *property* | tree rules |

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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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