Test 5 · ★ · Bangs and loud sounds: firecrackers and ears

Why is a balloon pop like a tiny firecracker bang?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: balloon pop

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 pop	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 pop	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pop	det
4	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pop	compound
5	pop	pop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	10 bang	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bang	det
8	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bang	amod
9	firecracker	firecracker	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bang	compound
10	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pop	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a balloon pop				like a tiny firecracker bang	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Both are made of the same powder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 made	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 powder	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 powder	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 powder	amod
7	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl

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

Option 2

Both are lit with a match

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 lit	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lit	aux:pass
3	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 match	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 match	det
6	match	match	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lit	present · passive		Both				with a match	tree rules

Option 3

Both bang because of the light they make

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 bang	nsubj
2	bang	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	6 light	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 because	fixed
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 light	det
6	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bang	obl
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 make	nsubj
8	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 light	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bang	present	Both					because the light	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present	they	the light not said here					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both are squashed gas escaping all at once in one sharp wave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 gas	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gas	cop
3	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 gas	amod
4	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	escaping	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 gas	acl
6	all	all	ADV	_	8 once	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 escaping	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 wave	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 wave	nummod
11	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wave	amod
12	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 escaping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	squash	participle					vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present	Both	squashed gas			tree rules
3	escape	gerund	squashed gas not said here		one sharp wave	once property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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