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title: shouted in the empty hall n heard myself back lol why — Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch an… · tree and pragmatics
description: shouted in the empty hall n heard myself back lol why Test 10 of lesson 54 «Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes» of the world 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 10 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

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shouted in the empty hall n heard myself back lol why

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** shout, hear back · **To what, where:** myself, empty hall n

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This is test 10 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/54-sound/#t10).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t10:1
# text = shouted in the empty hall n heard myself back lol why
1	shouted	shout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	empty	empty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	n	n	NOUN	NN	_	7	obl	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	back	back	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
11	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear back** | past |  | myself |  | the empty hall n |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus |

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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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Someone was copying you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t10:o1:1
# text = Someone was copying you
1	Someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	copying	copy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **copy** | past · progressive | Someone | you |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The floor made its own sound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t10:o2:1
# text = The floor made its own sound
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the floor | floor's own sound |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The sound got stuck in the air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t10:o3:1
# text = The sound got stuck in the air
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the sound |  |  |  |  | stuck *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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

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The sound bounced back from the hard walls as an echo

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t10:o4:1
# text = The sound bounced back from the hard walls as an echo
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	bounced	bounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	echo	echo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bounce back** | past | the sound |  |  | the hard walls |  | as a echo | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from wall=Trajectory |

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