Test 5 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

Why might a cyclist's bell not help a person wearing loud headphones?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bell · What happens: not help, wear · To what, where: person, loud headphones

This is test 5 of lesson 11 «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» of the everyday 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 help	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 help	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cyclist	det
4	cyclist	cyclist	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bell	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cyclist	case
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 help	advmod
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 person	det
10	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 help	obj
11	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 help	advcl
12	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 headphones	amod
13	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wearing	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not help	might	a cyclist's bell		a person				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Beneficiary
2	wear	gerund	a cyclist's bell not said here	loud headphones					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent headphone=Theme

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

Bells only work in the daytime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 work	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 work	advmod
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 daytime	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 daytime	det
6	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Bells					in the daytime	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in daytime=Theme

Option 2

Cyclists ring bells only at crossings

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cyclists	cyclist	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ring	nsubj
2	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ring	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 crossings	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 crossings	case
6	crossings	crossing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present	Cyclists	bells		crossings			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The music covers the sound of the bell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 music	det
2	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covers	nsubj
3	covers	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 covers	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bell	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bell	det
8	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sound	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present	the music	the sound of the bell					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sound=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Bells are too high for people to hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bells	bell	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 high	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 high	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 high	advmod
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	8 hear	mark
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hear	nsubj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hear	mark
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 high	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bells					high property	tree rules
2	hear	to-infinitive	people						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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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