Test 8 · Wind and the air around the Earth

Why do your ears sometimes pop when you drive up a high hill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ears, you · What happens: do, pop, drive up · To what, where: high hill

This is test 8 of lesson 69 «Wind and the air around the Earth» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pop	advcl
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ears	nmod:poss
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pop	nsubj
5	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 pop	advmod
6	pop	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 drive	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 drive	nsubj
9	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pop	advcl
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 drive	compound:prt
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 hill	det
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hill	amod
13	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 drive	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 pop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	present	your ears not said here			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pop	present	your ears		sometimes property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	drive up	present	you	a high hill		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hill=Theme

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 sound of the wind outside gets much louder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gets	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wind	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wind	det
5	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sound	nmod
6	outside	outside	ADV	_	7 gets	advmod
7	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 louder	advmod
9	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the sound of the wind					loud, outside property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The air pressure gets lower as you go up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pressure	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pressure	compound
3	pressure	pressure	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gets	nsubj
4	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 gets	xcomp
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 go	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 go	nsubj
8	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gets	advcl
9	up	up	ADV	_	8 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the air pressure					low property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go up	present	you						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

The air gets warmer and warmer as you go up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 gets	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 warmer	cc
6	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 warmer	conj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 go	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 go	nsubj
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	advcl
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	the air					warm property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	go up	present	you						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

The car engine pushes hard on your ears as it climbs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 engine	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engine	compound
3	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushes	nsubj
4	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 pushes	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ears	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ears	nmod:poss
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pushes	obl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 climbs	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 climbs	nsubj
11	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pushes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	the car engine					on your ears; hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on ear=Theme
2	climb	present	engine						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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