Test 7 · Eyes, ears and moving your body

Why should children not stand next to the speakers at a concert?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: children · What happens: not stand · To what, where: concert

This is test 7 of lesson 87 «Eyes, ears and moving your body» 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	5 stand	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stand	aux
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stand	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 stand	advmod
5	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	next	next	ADV	_	5 stand	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 speakers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 speakers	det
9	speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 next	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 concert	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 concert	det
12	concert	concert	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stand	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 stand	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	should	children			a concert		next property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at concert=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Loud noise can damage the inner ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 noise	amod
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 damage	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 damage	aux
4	damage	damage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ear	det
6	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ear	amod
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 damage	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	damage	can	Loud noise	the inner ear					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient

Option 2

The music sounds worse up close

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 sounds	nsubj
3	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 sounds	xcomp
5	up	up	ADV	_	6 close	advmod
6	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 sounds	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	the music					bad, close property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Speakers are very hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hot	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hot	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 hot	advmod
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Speakers					hot property	tree rules

Option 4

Speakers can give an electric shock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speakers	speaker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 give	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 give	aux
3	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shock	det
5	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 shock	amod
6	shock	shock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	can	Speakers	a electric shock					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shock=Theme

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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