Test 11 · ★ · The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earwo…

What would happen to your ears after years of blasting music at full volume?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen · To what, where: full volume

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 ears	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ears	nmod:poss
6	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 years	case
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 happen	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 music	case
10	blasting	blasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 music	compound
11	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 years	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 volume	case
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 volume	amod
14	volume	volume	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would				full volume	year	to your ears	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at volume=Location

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

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

You could lose some hearing for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 lose	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lose	aux
3	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 hearing	det
5	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lose	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 good	case
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	could	You	some hearing				for good	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Eventuality

Option 2

Your ears would get used to it and toughen up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 ears	nmod:poss
2	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 get	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 get	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 used	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 toughen	cc
9	toughen	toughen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 toughen	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	get	would	Your ears		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	use	participle	Your ears not said here	it	vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	toughen up	infinitive	Your ears not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

Nothing, ears always heal themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 ears	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 heal	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 heal	advmod
5	heal	heal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 heal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	heal	present	Nothing ears	ears = ear				always property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

You would hear better than everyone else

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 hear	xcomp
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 everyone	case
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 better	obl
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 everyone	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	would	You					good property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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