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Test 3 · ★★ · Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, s…

Try it: shut your eyes and walk slowly towards a wall while humming. What may you notice?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: try, shut, walk, hum, notice · To what, where: it, eyes, wall

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 230 «Echolocation in the sea and in people: dolphins, whales, swiftlets and clicking humans» of the biology 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: Try it: shut your eyes and walk slowly towards a wall while humming.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Try	obj
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	4 shut	punct
4	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	conj
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyes	nmod:poss
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shut	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 walk	cc
8	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Try	conj
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 walk	advmod
10	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 wall	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wall	det
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	obl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 humming	mark
14	humming	hum	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 walk	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	imperative	you not said here	it					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	shut	infinitive	you not said here	your eyes					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
3	walk	infinitive	you not said here			a wall		slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards wall=Destination
4	hum	gerund	you not said here						vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What may you notice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 notice	obj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 notice	nsubj
4	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 notice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	may	you						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

Nothing at all, ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ever	punct
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 Nothing	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Your eyes see through your eyelids

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 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 eyelids	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 eyelids	nmod:poss
6	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Your eyes			your eyelids			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You can often hear when the wall is close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 hear	advmod
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 close	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wall	det
7	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 close	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 close	cop
9	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hear	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	can	You					often property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	present	the wall					close property	tree rules

Option 4

The wall hums back a tune

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wall	det
2	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hums	nsubj
3	hums	hum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 hums	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tune	det
6	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hums	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hum back	present	the wall	a tune					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Topic

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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