Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★
Your bro swears he heard the lightning first and then saw the flash. Fair?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: swear, hear, see · To what, where: lightning, flash
This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 43 «Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★» 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: Your bro swears he heard the lightning first and then saw the flash.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bro | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swears | nsubj |
| 3 | swears | swear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swears | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lightning | det |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obj |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 heard | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 saw | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 saw | advmod |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 flash | det |
| 13 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swears | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swear | present | Your bro | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | bro | the lightning | first property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lightning=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | see | past | bro not said here | the flash | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer flash=Stimulus |
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: Fair?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fair | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
No, the two always arrive at the same moment
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 arrive | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 two | det |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 arrive | nsubj |
| 5 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 6 arrive | advmod |
| 6 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 moment | amod |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 arrive | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | present | the two | moment | always property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, the light gets to you first
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 gets | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 gets | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 light | det |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gets | nsubj |
| 5 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 gets | obl |
| 8 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 gets | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the light | you | first property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to you=Result |
Option 3
Yes, sound always travels faster than light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 travels | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 travels | nsubj |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 5 travels | advmod |
| 5 | travels | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 travels | advmod |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 light | case |
| 8 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 faster | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | sound | always, fast property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, in heavy rain the sound overtakes it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 overtakes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rain | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 rain | case |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rain | amod |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overtakes | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sound | det |
| 7 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 overtakes | nsubj |
| 8 | overtakes | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 overtakes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | present | the sound | rain | heavy rain | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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