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description: my mate says if u listen to music loud in ur headphones u go totally deaf in a week. what's probably blown up? Test 17 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's c
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# Test 17 · ★ · Growing, seeing and hearing

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my mate says if u listen to music loud in ur headphones u go totally deaf in a week. what's probably blown up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, u · **What happens:** say, listen, go, blow up · **To what, where:** headphones · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 211 «Growing, seeing and hearing» of the everyday 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/everyday/211-growing-seeing-and-hearing/#t17).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t17:1
# text = my mate says if u listen to music loud in ur headphones u go totally deaf in a week. what's probably blown up?
1	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	u	you	PRON	PRP	Abbr=Yes|Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	listen	listen	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	ur	your	PRON	PRP$	Abbr=Yes|Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	headphones	headphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
13	u	u	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
15	totally	totally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | my mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **listen** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | u |  |  |  |  | to music; loud *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to music=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present |  |  |  | ur's headphones |  | deaf *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in headphone=Location |
| 4 | **blow up** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | probably *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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That hearing damage is serious

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t17:o1:1
# text = That hearing damage is serious
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | that hearing damage |  |  |  |  | serious *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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A week; but long loud sound can damage hearing for life

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t17:o2:1
# text = A week; but long loud sound can damage hearing for life
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	damage	damage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **damage** | can | long loud sound | hearing |  |  | week | for life | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hearing=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That headphones can be loud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t17:o3:1
# text = That headphones can be loud
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	headphones	headphone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | can | that headphones |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
That loud sound can harm hearing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:211-growing-seeing-and-hearing:t17:o4:1
# text = That loud sound can harm hearing
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **harm** | can | that loud sound | hearing |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hearing=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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