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title: What would happen to your ears after years of blasting music at full… — The songs on everyone's phone: streami… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen to your ears after years of blasting music at full volume? Test 11 · ★ of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» of the arts course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice 
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# Test 11 · ★ · The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earwo…

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What would happen to your ears after years of blasting music at full volume?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **What happens:** happen · **To what, where:** full volume

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This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 5 «The songs on everyone's phone: streaming, playlists, earworms» of the arts 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t11:1
# text = What would happen to your ears after years of blasting music at full volume?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	blasting	blasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  | full volume | year | to your ears | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at volume=Location |

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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 {#options}

### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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You could lose some hearing for good

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t11:o1:1
# text = You could lose some hearing for good
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lose** | could | You | some hearing |  |  |  | for good | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Eventuality |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Your ears would get used to it and toughen up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t11:o2:1
# text = Your ears would get used to it and toughen up
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	toughen	toughen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | would | Your ears |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **use** | participle | Your ears *not said here* |  | it |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **toughen up** | infinitive | Your ears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, ears always heal themselves

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t11:o3:1
# text = Nothing, ears always heal themselves
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	5	advmod	_	_
5	heal	heal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **heal** | present | Nothing ears | ears *= ear* |  |  |  | always *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

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You would hear better than everyone else

```conllu
# sent_id = question:arts:5-the-songs-on-everyones-phone-streaming-playlists-earworms:t11:o4:1
# text = You would hear better than everyone else
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
7	else	else	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | would | You |  |  |  |  | good *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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**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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