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Test 10 · ★ · Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears

A friend says noise-cancelling headphones work by just being very thick. What is the cleverer truth?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friend, cancelling headphones, cleverer truth · What happens: say, work, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 19 «Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears» 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 friend says noise-cancelling headphones work by just being very thick.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cancelling	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 noise	punct
6	cancelling	cancelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 headphones	compound
7	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 work	nsubj
8	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 thick	mark
10	just	just	ADV	_	13 thick	advmod
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 thick	cop
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 thick	advmod
13	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 work	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a friend						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	work	present	cancelling headphones						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	gerund	cancelling headphones not said here					thick property	tree rules

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 is the cleverer truth?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 truth	det
4	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 truth	amod
5	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the cleverer truth						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They suck the sound away into a little box inside them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 suck	nsubj
2	suck	suck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suck	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 suck	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 box	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 box	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 box	amod
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 suck	obl
10	inside	inside	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 box	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck away	present	They	the sound		a little box inside them		away property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent sound=Source

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They play the opposite wave to cancel the noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 play	nsubj
2	play	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wave	det
4	opposite	opposite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wave	amod
5	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 play	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 cancel	mark
7	cancel	cancel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 play	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 noise	det
9	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cancel	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present	They	the opposite wave					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme
2	cancel	to-infinitive	They not said here	the noise					tree rules

Option 3

They turn the noise into light that you cannot see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 noise	det
4	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obj
5	into	into	ADP	_	6 light	case
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 see	obj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 see	advmod
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 light	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	They	the noise		light			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent noise=Theme into light=Trajectory
2	not see	can	you	light					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

Option 4

They are very thick and soft, and nothing more than that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thick	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thick	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 thick	advmod
4	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 soft	cc
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 thick	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nothing	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 nothing	cc
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 thick	conj
10	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 nothing	amod
11	than	than	ADP	_	12 that	case
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 more	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					thick property	tree rules
2	be		They not said here						tree rules

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