Test 7 · What sound is: wobbles in the air

shut it, you can't hear nothing under water, everyone knows that

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, everyone · What happens: shut, not hear, know · To what, where: it, nothing, water, that

This is test 7 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	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 shut	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 hear	nsubj
5	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 hear	advmod
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 shut	conj
8	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 hear	obj
9	under	under	ADP	_	10 water	case
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 nothing	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knows	punct
12	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 knows	nsubj
13	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 shut	conj
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 knows	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	shut	imperative	you not said here	it		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	not hear	can	you	nothing	water	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	know	present	everyone	that		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=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

Right, only fish can make sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 make	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 fish	advmod
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	can	fish	sound					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Product

Option 2

Right, water blocks all sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	4 blocks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Right	punct
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blocks	nsubj
4	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blocks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	water	all sound					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sound=Theme

Option 3

Wrong, but only for very loud bangs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bangs	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bangs	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 bangs	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 bangs	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	8 bangs	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bangs	amod
8	bangs	bang	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wrong, sound travels well under water, even better than in air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sound	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wrong	punct
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travels	nsubj
4	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 travels	advmod
6	under	under	ADP	_	7 water	case
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travels	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 better	punct
9	even	even	ADV	_	10 better	advmod
10	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 travels	advmod
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 air	case
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 air	case
13	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	Wrong sound			water		well property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under water=Trajectory

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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