Test 10 · ★★ · Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, ea…

«got a stinking cold and flying tomorrow, whatever» Why might the plane hurt his ears more than usual?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: plane · What happens: get, fly, hurt · To what, where: stinking, ears · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 362 «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stinking	det
4	stinking	stinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 got	obj
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flying	cc
7	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cold	advcl
8	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 flying	obl:unmarked
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 whatever	punct
10	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 got	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 whatever	punct
12	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 hurt	advmod
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hurt	aux
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 plane	det
15	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hurt	nsubj
16	hurt	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 got	parataxis
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 ears	nmod:poss
18	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hurt	obj
19	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 hurt	obj
20	than	than	ADP	_	21 usual	case
21	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 more	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	get in a quote	past		a stinking		cold property	tree rules
2	fly in a quote	gerund			tomorrow		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hurt	might	the plane	plane's ears			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus ear=Experiencer more=Result

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

A cold makes his eardrums much thicker and stiffer than they should be

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eardrums	nmod:poss
5	eardrums	eardrum	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 thicker	advmod
7	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stiffer	cc
9	stiffer	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 thicker	conj
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 be	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 be	nsubj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 be	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 thicker	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	a cold	cold's eardrums				thick property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset eardrum=Product

Option 2

The plane flies higher for people with colds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plane	det
2	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flies	nsubj
3	flies	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 flies	xcomp
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flies	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 colds	case
8	colds	cold	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 flies	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	the plane					for people; with colds; high property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Earwax melts in a cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earwax	earwax	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melts	nsubj
2	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cold	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cold	det
5	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 melts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	present	Earwax			a cold			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A cold can block the tube that balances air in the middle ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cold	det
2	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 block	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 block	aux
4	block	block	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tube	det
6	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 block	obj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 balances	nsubj
8	balances	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tube	acl:relcl
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 balances	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 ear	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ear	det
12	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 ear	amod
13	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 balances	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	can	a cold	the tube					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer tube=Theme
2	balance	present	the tube	air		the middle ear			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent air=Theme in ear=Location

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