Test 11 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

my cousin says you can hear explosions in space like in films. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cousin, you · What happens: say, hear · To what, where: explosions, space · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cousin	nmod:poss
2	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 says	ccomp
7	explosions	explosion	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 space	case
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 films	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 films	case
12	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hear	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 true	punct
14	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my cousin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hear	can	you	explosions		space		like films	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer explosion=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, sound travels best in space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 travels	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travels	nsubj
4	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 travels	advmod
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 space	case
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travels	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	travel	present	sound			space		well property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in space=Trajectory

Option 2

No, you can only hear them if you are standing on the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	obj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 standing	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 standing	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 standing	aux
11	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hear	advcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 Moon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Moon	det
14	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	can	you	them = they					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	stand a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	you			the Moon			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on moon=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, sound cannot travel through empty space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 sound	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 travel	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 travel	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 travel	advmod
6	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	through	through	ADP	_	9 space	case
8	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 space	amod
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 travel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not travel	can	sound			empty space			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through space=Trajectory

Option 4

Yes, but only very loud ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 ones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 ones	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	7 ones	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 loud	advmod
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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