Test 2 · ★★ · Road and railway safety

«shut up, I've got my headphones, I'll still hear a car» Why is that wrong?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, I, that · What happens: shut up, get, hear, be · To what, where: headphones, car

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 27 «Road and railway safety» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
2	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 got	nsubj
6	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 got	aux
7	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 shut	advcl
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 headphones	nmod:poss
9	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 got	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 hear	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 hear	nsubj
12	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hear	aux
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 hear	advmod
14	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shut	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 car	det
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hear	obj
17	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct
18	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 wrong	advmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 wrong	cop
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 wrong	nsubj
21	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 shut	advcl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	shut up in a quote	imperative	you not said here				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	get in a quote	present · perfect	I	my headphones			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer headphone=Stimulus
3	hear in a quote	future	I	a car	still		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus
4	is	present	that			wrong property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Music hides the sound, and electric cars are very quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	nsubj
2	hides	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sound	det
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hides	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 quiet	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 quiet	cc
7	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cars	amod
8	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 quiet	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 quiet	cop
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 quiet	advmod
11	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hides	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	present	Music	the sound					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
2	is	present	electric cars					quiet property	tree rules

Option 2

It's right, cars are always loud

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	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 loud	punct
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 loud	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 loud	cop
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 loud	advmod
8	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					right property	tree rules
2	is	present	cars					always, loud property	tree rules

Option 3

It's right, headphones make you hear better because they make your ears work harder

The tree, 15 words

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	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
5	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 work	advcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 hear	advmod
10	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 make	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 make	nsubj
12	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 work	advcl
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ears	nmod:poss
14	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 make	obj
15	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
16	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		right property	tree rules
2	make	present	headphones	you		tree rules
3	hear	infinitive	you not said here		well property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
4	make	present	headphones = headphone	your ears		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ear=Product
5	work	present			hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It's wrong only for buses

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	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 buses	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 buses	case
6	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wrong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					for buses; wrong property	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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