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Test 1 · What sound is: wobbles in the air

In a space film a spaceship explodes with a huge boom. What is wrong with that?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spaceship · What happens: explode, be · To what, where: space film

This is test 1 of lesson 17 «What sound is: wobbles in the air» 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

Sentence 1: In a space film a spaceship explodes with a huge boom.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	4 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 film	det
3	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 film	compound
4	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 explodes	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spaceship	det
6	spaceship	spaceship	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 explodes	nsubj
7	explodes	explode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 boom	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 boom	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 boom	amod
11	boom	boom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 explodes	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 explodes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	explode	present	a spaceship			a space film		with a huge boom	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in film=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.

Sentence 2: What is wrong with that?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 that	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 wrong	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						with that; wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, explosions are always loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 explosions	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	explosions	explosion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loud	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loud	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 loud	advmod
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing explosions					always, loud property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

There is no air in space to carry sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 space	case
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 carry	mark
8	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 space	acl
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no air			space; there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Location
2	carry	to-infinitive	no air not said here	sound					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme

Option 3

Space makes sounds louder, not quieter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 makes	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 quieter	advmod
7	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Space	sounds				loud, quiet property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product

Option 4

Only small explosions are silent in space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 explosions	advmod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 explosions	amod
3	explosions	explosion	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 silent	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 silent	cop
5	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 space	case
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 silent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	small explosions			space		silent property	tree rules

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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