Test 12 · Sound — vibrations, loudness, pitch and echoes

Ben reckons sound can't go through water. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ben, sound · What happens: reckon, not go · To what, where: water

This is test 12 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	Ben	Ben	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reckons	ccomp
7	through	through	ADP	_	8 water	case
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Ben						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not go	can	sound			water			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through water=Initial_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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, sound travels through water, even faster than through air

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	4 travels	nsubj
4	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travels	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 faster	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 faster	advmod
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 travels	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 air	case
11	through	through	ADP	_	12 air	case
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 faster	obl

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

Option 2

Yes, water stops all sound

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stops	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 sound	det
6	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	water	all sound					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sound=Eventuality

Option 3

Yes, fish cannot hear anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 hear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not hear	can	fish	anything					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4

No, it travels only through ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 travels	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 travels	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 travels	nsubj
4	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 ice	advmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	7 ice	case
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 travels	obl

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

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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