Test 3 · ★ · Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears

What would happen if a firecracker burst far away across a field instead of next to you?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: firecracker · What happens: happen, burst · To what, where: field

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 burst	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 firecracker	det
6	firecracker	firecracker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burst	nsubj
7	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 away	advmod
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 burst	advmod
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 field	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 field	det
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 burst	obl
13	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	15 next	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 instead	fixed
15	next	next	ADV	_	7 burst	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 you	case
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 next	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	burst a condition, not said to happen	past	a firecracker			a field		away, next property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

It would be silent, because sound cannot cross fields

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	4 silent	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 silent	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 silent	cop
4	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cross	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 cross	mark
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cross	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cross	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 cross	advmod
10	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 silent	conj
11	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cross	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					silent property	tree rules
2	not cross	can	sound	fields					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient

Option 2

It would be just as loud as close up

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	6 loud	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 loud	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 loud	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 loud	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 loud	advmod
6	loud	loud	ADV	_	root	root
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 close	advmod
8	close	close	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 loud	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 close	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					loud property	tree rules
2	close up	infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It would be louder, because sound grows with distance

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	4 louder	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 louder	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 louder	cop
4	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grows	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 grows	mark
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	nsubj
8	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 louder	conj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 distance	case
10	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	It					loud property	tree rules
2	grow	present	sound					with distance	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The bang would be much weaker by the time it reached you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bang	det
2	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weaker	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 weaker	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 weaker	cop
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 weaker	advmod
6	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weaker	obl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 reached	nsubj
11	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 time	acl:relcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 reached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the bang				time	weak property	tree rules
2	reach	past	bang	you					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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