Test 17 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

my mate says if u listen to music loud in ur headphones u go totally deaf in a week. what's probably blown up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, u · What happens: say, listen, go, blow up · To what, where: headphones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 listen	mark
5	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 listen	nsubj
6	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 go	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 music	case
8	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 listen	obl
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 listen	xcomp
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 headphones	case
11	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 headphones	nmod:poss
12	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 go	obl
13	u	u	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
15	totally	totally	ADV	_	16 deaf	advmod
16	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 go	xcomp
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 week	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 week	det
19	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 deaf	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	24 blown	nsubj:pass
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 blown	aux
23	probably	probably	ADV	_	24 blown	advmod
24	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 go	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 blown	compound:prt
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	listen a condition, not said to happen	present	u		to music; loud property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme
3	go	present		ur's headphones	deaf property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in headphone=Location
4	blow up	present · passive			probably property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=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 · ← Mova's choice

That hearing damage is serious

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 damage	det
2	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 damage	compound
3	damage	damage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 serious	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 serious	cop
5	serious	serious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that hearing damage					serious property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A week; but long loud sound can damage hearing for life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 week	det
2	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 damage	obl:unmarked
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 damage	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 damage	cc
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sound	amod
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sound	amod
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 damage	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 damage	aux
9	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 damage	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 life	case
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 damage	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	can	long loud sound	hearing			week	for life	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Patient

Option 3

That headphones can be loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 headphones	det
2	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loud	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 loud	cop
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	can	that headphones					loud property	tree rules

Option 4

That loud sound can harm hearing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 sound	det
2	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	amod
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harm	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 harm	aux
5	harm	harm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harm	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	harm	can	that loud sound	hearing					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hearing=Experiencer

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