Test 8 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing
A whistle blows on your right. Which ear hears it first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: whistle, ear · What happens: blow, hear · To what, where: right, whistle
This is test 8 · ★★★ 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
Sentence 1: A whistle blows on your right.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 whistle | det |
| 2 | whistle | whistle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blows | nsubj |
| 3 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 right | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 right | nmod:poss |
| 6 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blows | obl |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | present | a whistle | your right | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: 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.
Sentence 2: Which ear hears it first?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 ear | det |
| 2 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hears | nsubj |
| 3 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hears | obj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 hears | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | present | which ear | whistle | first property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The right ear, a tiny bit earlier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ear | det |
| 2 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ear | amod |
| 3 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bit | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ear | appos |
| 8 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 bit | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Both at exactly the same moment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 moment | case |
| 3 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 moment | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moment | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 moment | amod |
| 6 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Both | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Neither, until you turn around
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 5 turn | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | around | around | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn around | present | you | around, neither property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The left ear, a tiny bit earlier
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ear | det |
| 2 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ear | amod |
| 3 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bit | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bit | amod |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ear | appos |
| 8 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 bit | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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