Test 11 · The air presses on everything
Why do your ears feel blocked and then pop in a lift going fast down a tall tower?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lift · What happens: block, pop, go · To what, where: ears, lift, tall tower
This is test 11 of lesson 14 «The air presses on everything» of the physics 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 | 6 blocked | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blocked | aux |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ears | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 blocked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 blocked | aux:pass |
| 6 | blocked | block | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pop | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 pop | advmod |
| 9 | pop | pop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 blocked | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 lift | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lift | det |
| 12 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pop | obl |
| 13 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 lift | acl |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 going | advmod |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 tower | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 tower | det |
| 17 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tower | amod |
| 18 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 going | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 blocked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | block | present · passive · do-support | your ears | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pop | infinitive | a lift | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lift=Location | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | a lift not said here | a tall tower | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down tower=Initial_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
The lift is too noisy for your ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lift | det |
| 2 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noisy | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 noisy | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 noisy | advmod |
| 5 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 ears | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 noisy | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the lift | for your ears; noisy property | tree rules |
Option 2
The lift shakes the water in your ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lift | det |
| 2 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shakes | nsubj |
| 3 | shakes | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shakes | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 ears | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 ears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shakes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | present | the lift | the water | your ears | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme in ear=Trajectory |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The lift's lights hurt your ears
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lift | det |
| 2 | lift | lift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lights | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 lift | case |
| 4 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurt | nsubj |
| 5 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ears | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hurt | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | past | the lift's lights | your ears | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ear=Patient | ||||
| 2 | light | the lift | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The air pressure grows quickly and the eardrum is pushed until air evens out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pressure | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pressure | compound |
| 3 | pressure | pressure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grows | nsubj |
| 4 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 4 grows | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 pushed | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eardrum | det |
| 8 | eardrum | eardrum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pushed | aux:pass |
| 10 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 grows | conj |
| 11 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 13 evens | mark |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 evens | nsubj |
| 13 | evens | even | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 pushed | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 evens | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the air pressure | quickly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push | present · passive | the eardrum | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | even out | present | air | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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