Test 10 · ★ · Senses: eyes and ears

In a game your hero spins round twenty times and walks in a straight line at once. What really happens?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hero · What happens: spin round, happen · To what, where: game

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 69 «Senses: eyes and ears» of the biology 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

Sentence 1: In a game your hero spins round twenty times and walks in a straight line at once.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 game	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 game	det
3	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spins	obl
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hero	nmod:poss
5	hero	hero	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spins	nsubj
6	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADV	_	8 twenty	advmod
8	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 spins	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 walks	cc
11	walks	walk	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 times	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 line	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 line	det
14	straight	straight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 line	amod
15	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spins	obl
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 spins	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 spins	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin round	present	your hero			a game	time	in a straight line	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in game=Source in line=Trajectory at once=Destination

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.

Sentence 2: What really happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happens	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	3 happens	advmod
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He would fly like a top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	He					like a top	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He would walk even faster than before because he is warmed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 walk	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 walk	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	fixed
7	before	before	ADP	_	5 faster	conj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 warmed	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 warmed	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 warmed	aux:pass
11	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 walk	advcl
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 warmed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	would	He					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	warm up	present · passive		he					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He would wobble, as fluid in his inner ear keeps swirling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wobble	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 wobble	aux
3	wobble	wobble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keeps	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 keeps	mark
6	fluid	fluid	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keeps	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 ear	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ear	nmod:poss
9	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ear	amod
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fluid	nmod
11	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wobble	advcl
12	swirling	swirl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wobble	would	He	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	fluid in fluid's inner ear	tree rules
3	swirl	gerund	fluid in fluid's inner ear not said here	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing at all happens

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 happens	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Nothing						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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