Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Physics / Thunder, sirens and how fast sound tra… / t4

Test 4 · ★ · Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels

A police car drives past you at speed. Which is true about its siren?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: police car · What happens: drive, be · To what, where: speed

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A police car drives past you at speed.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 car	det
2	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 car	compound
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drives	nsubj
4	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	past	past	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 drives	obl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 speed	case
8	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drives	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 drives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present	a police car			speed		past you	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past you=Trajectory

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: Which is true about its siren?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 siren	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 siren	nmod:poss
6	siren	siren	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about speed's siren; true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It sounds the same the whole time

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 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sounds	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sounds	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	It	the same			time		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location same=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It sounds lower coming and higher going

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 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 sounds	xcomp
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lower	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 higher	cc
6	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 lower	conj
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lower	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	It					low property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	come	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	gerund							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It sounds higher coming and lower going

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 sounds	nsubj
2	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 coming	amod
4	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sounds	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 going	cc
6	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 going	amod
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 coming	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sound	present	It						tree rules
2	come	gerund							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	gerund							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It goes silent as it passes

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 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	xcomp
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 passes	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 passes	nsubj
6	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 goes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	It					silent property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	present	it						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/18-thunder-sirens-and-how-fast-sound-travels/t4/