--- title: What would a stretched-out slack string do to your string telephone? — Thunder, sirens and how fast sound tra… · tree and pragmatics description: What would a stretched-out slack string do to your string telephone? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 18 «Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels/t7/) [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/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/) / [Thunder, sirens and how fast sound tra…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels What would a stretched-out slack string do to your string telephone? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** stretched slack string · **What happens:** stretch, do This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 18 «Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels» 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/18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels:t7:1 # text = What would a stretched-out slack string do to your string telephone? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 2 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 4 stretched stretch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 out out NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 7 slack slack ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 telephone telephone NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stretch** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **do** | would | a stretched slack string | | | | | to your string telephone | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | 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} Make your friend hear you a little sooner ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels:t7:o1:1 # text = Make your friend hear you a little sooner 1 Make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 obl:unmarked _ _ 8 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 4 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | your friend | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | infinitive | your friend *not said here* | you | | | | soon *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Carry the sound badly or not at all ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels:t7:o2:1 # text = Carry the sound badly or not at all 1 Carry carry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 1 advmod _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 conj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 1 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sound | | all | | badly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Make all the sounds come out much higher ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels:t7:o3:1 # text = Make all the sounds come out much higher 1 Make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 4 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 5 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 much much ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 5 xcomp _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **come out** | present | all sounds | | | | | high, out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} Carry the sound twice as well as before ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels:t7:o4:1 # text = Carry the sound twice as well as before 1 Carry carry VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 twice twice ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 1 advmod _ _ 5 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 1 advmod _ _ 6 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 5 fixed _ _ 7 as as ADP IN _ 5 fixed _ _ 8 before before ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | imperative | you *not said here* | the sound | | | | twice *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme | **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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