Test 11 · ★ · Describing: senses, showing and precise words

Which sentence uses hearing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sentence · What happens: use · To what, where: hearing

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 41 «Describing: senses, showing and precise words» of the English 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sentence	det
2	sentence	sentence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	nsubj
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present	which sentence	hearing					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Patient

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 roof felt cold to touch.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roof	det
2	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 touch	mark
6	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 cold	advcl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the roof					cold property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	touch	to-infinitive	the roof not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Rain drummed on the tin roof.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	drummed	drum	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Rain	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 roof	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 roof	det
5	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roof	compound
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 drummed	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Rain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drum	participle		Rain not said here				on the tin roof	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on roof=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The roof was made of red tin.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roof	det
2	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tin	case
6	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tin	amod
7	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the roof				of red tin	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 4

The roof smelled of rust.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 roof	det
2	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	smelled	smell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 roof	acl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 rust	case
5	rust	rust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smelled	obl
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 roof	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	participle		the roof not said here				of rust	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location of rust=Theme

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