Test 7 · ★ · Starting a band

Josh says, "Loud music can't hurt your ears if you like it." What is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Josh, Loud music, you · What happens: say, not hurt, like, be · To what, where: ears, music · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 4 «Starting a band» of the arts 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.

The question

Sentence 1: Josh says, "Loud music can't hurt your ears if you like it."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Josh	Josh	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hurt	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 hurt	punct
5	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 music	amod
6	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hurt	nsubj
7	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 hurt	advmod
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ears	nmod:poss
11	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hurt	obj
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 like	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 like	nsubj
14	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hurt	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 like	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Josh		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not hurt in a quote	can	Loud music	your ears	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient
3	like a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you	music	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: What is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Liking a song makes your ears stronger, so it can't do them any harm

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Liking	like	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 makes	csubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 song	det
3	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Liking	obj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ears	nmod:poss
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
7	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	13 do	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 do	advmod
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 makes	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 harm	det
16	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	like	gerund		a song		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot song=Theme
2	make	present	Liking	your ears	strong property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ear=Product
3	not do	can	song	ears = ear		tree rules

Option 2

Only music you hate can hurt your ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 music	advmod
2	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hurt	nsubj
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hate	nsubj
4	hate	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 music	acl:relcl
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ears	nmod:poss
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	present	you	music not said here					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus
2	hurt	can	music	your ears					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Loud sound damages hearing whether you like it or not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 damages	amod
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 damages	compound
3	damages	damage	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hearing	nsubj
4	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	7 like	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 like	nsubj
7	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hearing	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 like	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 not	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 like	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	Loud sound damages						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	like	present	you	it					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=Theme

Option 4

Drums are too quiet to hurt anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drums	drum	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 quiet	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 quiet	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 quiet	advmod
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hurt	mark
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 quiet	advcl
7	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Drums					quiet property	tree rules
2	hurt	to-infinitive	Drums not said here	anyone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

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