Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: sound, light, heat, electricity and magnets ★★★
In a cartoon, a spaceship blows up with a huge BOOM heard by heroes in another ship far away. Fix it.
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spaceship, you · What happens: blow up, hear, fix · To what, where: cartoon, huge BOOM, ship, spaceship
This is test 4 · ★★★ 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: In a cartoon, a spaceship blows up with a huge BOOM heard by heroes in another ship far away.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 cartoon | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cartoon | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blows | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cartoon | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spaceship | det |
| 6 | spaceship | spaceship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blows | nsubj |
| 7 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 blows | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 BOOM | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 BOOM | det |
| 11 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 BOOM | amod |
| 12 | BOOM | boom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blows | obl |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 BOOM | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 heroes | case |
| 15 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 heard | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 ship | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 ship | det |
| 18 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 heard | obl |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 away | advmod |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 heard | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blows | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow up | present | a spaceship | a cartoon | with a huge BOOM | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with boom=Theme | |||
| 2 | hear | participle | a huge BOOM not said here | another ship | by heroes; away property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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: Fix it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fix | fix | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Fix | obj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fix | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | imperative | you not said here | spaceship | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
The options
Option 1
They would hear it, but only a minute or so later
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 | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 minute | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 minute | cc |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 minute | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 minute | det |
| 9 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hear | obl |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 so | cc |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 minute | conj |
| 12 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 hear | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | would | They | it | minute | late property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
They would hear it but see nothing
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 | 3 hear | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | aux |
| 3 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hear | obj |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hear | conj |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | would | They | it | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | see | present | They not said here | nothing | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
They would see the blast but hear nothing
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 | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blast | det |
| 5 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 hear | cc |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 hear | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | would | They | the blast | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blast=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | present | They not said here | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
Option 4
It would be even louder out in space
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 | 5 louder | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 louder | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 louder | cop |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 louder | advmod |
| 5 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 louder | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 space | case |
| 8 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 louder | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | It | space | loud property | tree rules |
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