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title: why's the big drum go boom n the little one go tick — Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch an… · tree and pragmatics
description: why's the big drum go boom n the little one go tick Test 9 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 9 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

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why's the big drum go boom n the little one go tick

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big drum · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** boom, tick

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This is test 9 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t9:1
# text = why's the big drum go boom n the little one go tick
1	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	boom	boom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	n	n	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
13	tick	tick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | the big drum | boom |  |  |  | n the little one | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boom=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | infinitive | the big drum *not said here* | tick |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tick=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The big drum vibrates faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t9:o1:1
# text = The big drum vibrates faster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	vibrates	vibrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vibrate** | present | the big drum |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Big drums have no vibrations

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t9:o2:1
# text = Big drums have no vibrations
1	Big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	vibrations	vibration	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 | Big drums | no vibrations |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vibration=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Slower vibrations of the big drum make lower sounds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t9:o3:1
# text = Slower vibrations of the big drum make lower sounds
1	Slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	amod	_	_
2	vibrations	vibration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Slower vibrations of the big drum | lower sounds |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product |
| 2 | **vibrate** |  | the big drum |  |  |  |  |  | nom vibration «act intransitive»: of=agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The small drum is louder inside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:54-sound:t9:o4:1
# text = The small drum is louder inside
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	drum	drum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the small drum |  |  |  |  | inside, loud *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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