Test 7 · ★ · Senses: eyes and ears

shout HELLO in a cave and it comes back a second later. how far is the wall then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, cave · What happens: shout, come back, be · To what, where: HELLO, cave, wall

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 69 «Senses: eyes and ears» 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	shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	HELLO	HELLO	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 shout	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 cave	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cave	det
5	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shout	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 comes	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 shout	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 comes	advmod
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 second	det
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 later	obl:unmarked
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 comes	advmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 shout	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 far	advmod
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 wall	advmod
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 wall	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 wall	det
18	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shout	obl
19	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 shout	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 shout	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here	HELLO	a cave	then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hello=Topic
2	come back	present	cave				late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present		the wall			far property	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

About 1 kilometre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 1	advmod
2	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 kilometre	nummod
3	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

About 17 metres

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 17	advmod
2	17	17	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

About 170 metres, as sound goes there and back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 170	advmod
2	170	170	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 goes	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 goes	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 goes	mark
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 goes	nsubj
7	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 goes	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 back	cc
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 there	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	170 metres			there			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

About 340 metres, because sound only goes one way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 340	advmod
2	340	340	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 metres	nummod
3	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 goes	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 goes	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 goes	mark
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	nsubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 goes	advmod
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 way	nummod
10	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 goes	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	340 metres	one way					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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