Test 11 · ★ · Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears

A film crew crunches celery for the sound of a breaking bone. Why does it work?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: film crew, crew · What happens: crunch, work · To what, where: celery

This is test 11 · ★ 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 film crew crunches celery for the sound of a breaking bone.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crew	det
2	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crew	compound
3	crew	crew	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crunches	nsubj
4	crunches	crunch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	celery	celery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crunches	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 sound	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sound	det
8	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crunches	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 bone	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bone	det
11	breaking	breaking	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bone	compound
12	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sound	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 crunches	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crunch	present	a film crew	celery				for the sound of a breaking bone	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent celery=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.

Sentence 2: Why does it work?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 work	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 work	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 work	nsubj
4	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 work	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present · do-support	crew						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Celery and bones are made of the same stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Celery	celery	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bones	cc
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Celery	conj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 stuff	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stuff	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stuff	amod
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		Celery and bones				of the same stuff	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2

The audience cannot hear the difference between any two sounds at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 audience	det
2	audience	audience	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 hear	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 hear	advmod
5	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 difference	det
7	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hear	obj
8	between	between	ADP	_	11 sounds	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 sounds	det
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 sounds	nummod
11	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 difference	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	the audience	the difference		all		between any two sounds	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer difference=Stimulus

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

Our brains recognise the pattern of the wobbles, not the object

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brains	nmod:poss
2	brains	brain	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 recognise	nsubj
3	recognise	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pattern	det
5	pattern	pattern	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 recognise	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wobbles	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wobbles	det
8	wobbles	wobble	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pattern	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 object	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 object	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 object	det
12	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wobbles	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	recognise	present	Our brains	the pattern of the wobbles and the object					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pattern=Stimulus
2	pattern		the wobbles and the object						nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4

The microphone changes every sound into bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 microphone	det
2	microphone	microphone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changes	nsubj
3	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sound	det
5	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 changes	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 bones	case
7	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 changes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present	the microphone	every sound				into bones result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent sound=Patient into bone=Result

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