Test 3 · ★ · Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels

Why is putting your ear to a railway line a terrible idea in real life?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: put · To what, where: ear, real life

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 18 «Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 putting	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 putting	aux
3	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 ear	nmod:poss
5	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 putting	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 line	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 line	det
8	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 line	compound
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 putting	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 idea	det
11	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 idea	amod
12	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 putting	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 life	case
14	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 life	amod
15	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 putting	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 putting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present · progressive		your ear		real life		to a railway line	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent ear=Asset idea=Goal

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 · ✓ the right answer

Trains are faster and quieter than you think, and railways are deadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 faster	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 faster	cop
3	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 quieter	advcl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 quieter	cc
5	quieter	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 think	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 think	nsubj
8	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quieter	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 deadly	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 deadly	cc
11	railways	railway	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 deadly	nsubj
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 deadly	cop
13	deadly	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quieter	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Trains	fast property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	present	you		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	railways	deadly property	tree rules

Option 2

Steel carries no sound at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	nsubj
2	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carries	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 carries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Steel	no sound		all			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme

Option 3

It works only in old films

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 films	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 films	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 films	amod
6	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 works	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It					in old films	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in film=Theme

Option 4

The rail would freeze your ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rail	det
2	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 freeze	aux
4	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ear	nmod:poss
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 freeze	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	would	the rail	your ear					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient ear=Result

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