Test 2 · What sound is: wobbles in the air

me mate reckons whales just splash about, they can't hear each other far. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: me mate, whales · What happens: reckon, splash about, not hear · To what, where: each

This is test 2 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 mate	compound
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 splash	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 splash	advmod
6	splash	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 splash	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hear	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hear	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 hear	advmod
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 splash	conj
13	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	12 hear	obj
14	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 each	fixed
15	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 hear	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	3 reckons	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	me mate			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	splash about	present	whales		about property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	not hear	can	whales = whale	each	far property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

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

Yes, whales are deaf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 deaf	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 deaf	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 deaf	cop
5	deaf	deaf	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

No, their songs travel hundreds of kilometres under water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 travel	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 travel	punct
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 songs	nmod:poss
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 travel	nsubj
5	travel	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 travel	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 kilometres	case
8	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hundreds	nmod
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 travel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	their songs	hundreds of kilometres		water			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hundred=Trajectory
2	sing		their = they						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

No, but only in warm seas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 seas	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seas	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 seas	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 seas	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 seas	case
6	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seas	amod
7	seas	sea	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes, sound stops a few metres under water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 sound	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 metres	det
6	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 metres	amod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stops	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	sound	a few metres		water			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality metre=Eventuality

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