Test 5 · What sound is: wobbles in the air
In a cartoon, a character shouts and the words visibly fly through the air as letters. What really travels?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: character, words · What happens: shout, fly, travel · To what, where: cartoon, air
This is test 5 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 cartoon, a character shouts and the words visibly fly through the air as letters.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shouts | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 character | det |
| 6 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shouts | nsubj |
| 7 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fly | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fly | nsubj |
| 11 | visibly | visibly | ADV | _ | 12 fly | advmod |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shouts | conj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fly | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 letters | case |
| 17 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fly | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shouts | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | a character | a cartoon | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fly | present | the words | the air | as letters; visibly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=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 really travels?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 travels | obj |
| 2 | really | really | ADV | _ | 3 travels | advmod |
| 3 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 travels | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme what=Trajectory |
The options
Option 1
The words themselves as invisible letters
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 words | nmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 letters | case |
| 5 | invisible | invisible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 letters | amod |
| 6 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 words | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Little puffs of light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 puffs | amod |
| 2 | puffs | puff | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 light | case |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 puffs | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff | light | nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A wobble in the air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 wobble | det |
| 2 | wobble | wobble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 air | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wobble | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Tiny bits of the voice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bits | amod |
| 2 | bits | bit | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 voice | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bits | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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