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Test 11 · What sound is: wobbles in the air

Your gran says she cannot hear the high beep of the oven any more but you can. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gran · What happens: say, not hear, beep · To what, where: high beep, oven · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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: Your gran says she cannot hear the high beep of the oven any more but you can.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 gran	nmod:poss
2	gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hear	advmod
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 beep	det
9	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 beep	amod
10	beep	beep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hear	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 oven	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 oven	det
13	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beep	nmod
14	any	any	ADV	_	15 more	advmod
15	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 hear	advmod
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 can	cc
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 can	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 more	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Your gran						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not hear	can	gran	the high beep of the oven					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beep=Stimulus
3	beep			the oven					nom beep «event transitive»: of=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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Her oven makes two different beeps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 oven	nmod:poss
2	oven	oven	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 beeps	nummod
5	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beeps	amod
6	beeps	beep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Her oven	two different beeps					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset beep=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The beep is too low for older people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beep	det
2	beep	beep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 low	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 low	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 low	advmod
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 people	amod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 low	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the beep					for older people; low property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Hearing of high notes fades with age

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fades	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 notes	case
3	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 notes	amod
4	notes	note	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Hearing	nmod
5	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 age	case
7	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fades	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	Hearing of high notes				with age		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with age=Instrument
2	hear		high notes						nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

Children's ears are louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ears	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Children	case
3	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 louder	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 louder	cop
5	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Children's ears					loud property	tree rules

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