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Test 1 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

You press your ear to a long wooden table while a friend taps the far end. What do you notice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, friend · What happens: press, tap, notice · To what, where: ear, far end

This is test 1 of lesson 54 «Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes» of the world 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: You press your ear to a long wooden table while a friend taps the far end.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 press	nsubj
2	press	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ear	nmod:poss
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 press	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 table	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 table	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 table	amod
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 table	amod
9	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 press	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 taps	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 friend	det
12	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taps	nsubj
13	taps	tap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 press	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
15	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 end	amod
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 taps	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 press	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	You	your ear				to a long wooden table	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
2	tap	present	a friend	the far end					vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent end=Location

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: What do you notice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 notice	obj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 notice	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 notice	nsubj
4	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 notice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	present · do-support	you						vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

You hear nothing, since wood blocks all sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 hear	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 blocks	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 blocks	mark
6	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blocks	nsubj
7	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 hear	parataxis
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 sound	det
9	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 blocks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	You	nothing					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	block	present	wood	all sound					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer sound=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You hear the tap clearly through the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tap	det
4	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obj
5	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	2 hear	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	You	the tap		the wood		clearly property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tap=Stimulus

Option 3

You hear it only after a long delay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hear	obj
4	only	only	ADV	_	2 hear	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 delay	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 delay	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 delay	amod
8	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	You	it			after a long delay		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

You hear the tap as a high whistle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 hear	nsubj
2	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tap	det
4	tap	tap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obj
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 whistle	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 whistle	det
7	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 whistle	amod
8	whistle	whistle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	You	the tap				as a high whistle	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tap=Stimulus

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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