Test 6 · ★ · Thunder, sirens and how fast sound travels

ugh my voice on the video sounds well weird, is the phone broken?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: voice · What happens: sound, be, break · To what, where: phone

This is test 6 · ★ 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	ugh	ugh	INTJ	_	3 voice	discourse
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 voice	nmod:poss
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounds	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 video	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 video	det
6	video	video	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 voice	nmod
7	sounds	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 weird	advmod
9	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sounds	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 phone	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 phone	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 phone	det
13	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sounds	obl
14	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 phone	acl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 sounds	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sound	present	my voice on the video		weird property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present		the phone		tree rules
3	break	participle		the phone not said here		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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

Yes, phones always change voices

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 change	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 change	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 change	advmod
5	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 change	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	phones	voices				always property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Patient

Option 2

No, your voice changes when you hear it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 changes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 changes	punct
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 changes	nsubj
5	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 hear	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 hear	nsubj
8	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 changes	advcl
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	obj
10	back	back	ADV	_	8 hear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	your voice						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear back	present	you	voice					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, that is how you really sound to others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 sound	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sound	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 how	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 how	cop
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 sound	advmod
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 sound	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 sound	advmod
8	sound	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 others	case
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sound	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					how property	tree rules
2	sound	present	you					to others	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to other=Experiencer

Option 4

Yes, your voice is deeper than that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 deeper	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deeper	punct
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deeper	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deeper	cop
6	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	8 that	case
8	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 deeper	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	your voice					than that; deep property	tree rules

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