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title: Why does a gym with bare walls sound more echoey than a classroom wi… — Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why does a gym with bare walls sound more echoey than a classroom with posters, carpets and curtains? Test 5 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 
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# Test 5 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

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Why does a gym with bare walls sound more echoey than a classroom with posters, carpets and curtains?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bare walls · **What happens:** sound · **To what, where:** more echoey

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This is test 5 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t5:1
# text = Why does a gym with bare walls sound more echoey than a classroom with posters, carpets and curtains?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl:relcl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	gym	gym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sound	sound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	_
10	echoey	echoey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	posters	poster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	carpets	carpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	curtains	curtain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | present | bare walls | more echoey |  |  |  | than a classroom with posters and carpets and curtains | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location echoey=Theme |

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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 {#o1}

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The gym has more air in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t5:o1:1
# text = The gym has more air in it
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gym	gym	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the gym | more air |  | air |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Soft things in the classroom absorb sound

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t5:o2:1
# text = Soft things in the classroom absorb sound
1	Soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	absorb	absorb	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **absorb** | infinitive | Soft things in the classroom | sound |  |  |  |  | vn absorb-39.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Goal sound=Theme |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3}

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Posters make sounds louder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t5:o3:1
# text = Posters make sounds louder
1	Posters	poster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Posters | sounds |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The classroom has no sound waves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t5:o4:1
# text = The classroom has no sound waves
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	classroom	classroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the classroom | no sound waves |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient |

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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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