Test 6 · The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccup…

«my mate says sneezes go 160 km an hour, faster than a car» What did fast-camera tests find?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, sneezes, fast camera tests · What happens: say, go, find · To what, where: 160 km · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 of lesson 364 «The body's rough side: burps, farts, snot, sneezes, hiccups and poo» 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	_	4 says	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sneezes	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 go	nsubj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 says	ccomp
7	160	160	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 km	nummod
8	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl:unmarked
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 faster	punct
12	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 go	advmod
13	than	than	ADP	_	15 car	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 car	det
15	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 faster	obl
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
17	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 find	obj
18	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 find	aux
19	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tests	amod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 fast	punct
21	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tests	compound
22	tests	test	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 find	nsubj
23	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 go	advcl
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go in a quote	infinitive	sneezes	160 km	hour	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	find	past · do-support	fast camera tests			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

It is true, sneezes beat racing cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	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	_	6 beat	punct
5	sneezes	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beat	nsubj
6	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	parataxis
7	racing	racing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cars	compound
8	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	beat	present	sneezes	racing cars					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location car=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The air is much slower, nearer a fast bicycle, though droplets can float several metres

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 slower	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slower	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 slower	advmod
5	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nearer	punct
7	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 slower	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bicycle	det
9	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bicycle	amod
10	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nearer	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 float	punct
12	though	though	SCONJ	_	15 float	mark
13	droplets	droplet	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 float	nsubj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 float	aux
15	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 slower	conj
16	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 metres	amod
17	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 float	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the air		slow property	tree rules
2	be		the air not said here	a fast bicycle		tree rules
3	float	can	droplets	several metres		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent metre=Agent

Option 3

Sneezes go faster than sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sneezes	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 go	advmod
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 sound	case
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Sneezes					than sound; fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Sneezes do not move at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sneezes	sneeze	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 move	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	present · do-support	Sneezes			all			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory

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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