Test 2 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

If people had only one ear, what would become harder?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: people, one ear · What happens: have, become · To what, where: one ear

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Thinking about noticing» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 one	advmod
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 ear	nummod
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 become	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 become	aux
10	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 ear	acl:relcl
11	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 become	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	people	one ear					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
2	become	would	one ear					hard property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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

Hearing any high sounds, like birds singing in the trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	4 sounds	det
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sounds	amod
4	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hearing	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 birds	punct
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 birds	case
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hearing	obl
8	singing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 birds	acl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 trees	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 trees	det
11	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		any high sounds				like birds	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2	sing speech: express	gerund	birds not said here			the trees			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

Option 2

Speaking clearly to others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	1 Speaking	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 others	case
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Speaking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	gerund						to others; clearly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to other=Co-Agent

Option 3

Hearing loud sounds at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sounds	amod
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hearing	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Hearing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund		loud sounds		all			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus

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

Telling which direction a sound comes from

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 comes	csubj
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 direction	det
3	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	6 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund		which direction					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent direction=Recipient sound=Topic
2	come	present	Telling						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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