Test 6 · ★★ · The air we breathe

"all that air on top of me weighs loads? then why don't I get squashed lol"

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: air · What happens: weigh, not squash · To what, where: loads, I

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 33 «The air we breathe» of the chemistry 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 air	punct
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 air	det:predet
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weighs	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 top	case
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 air	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 me	case
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 top	nmod
9	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 weighs	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 weighs	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 squashed	advmod
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	18 squashed	advmod
14	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 squashed	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 squashed	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 squashed	nsubj:pass
17	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 squashed	aux:pass
18	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 lol	amod
19	lol	lol	NOUN	_	9 weighs	obj
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 weighs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh in a quote	present	all air on top of me	loads					tree rules
2	not squash in a quote	present · passive · do-support		I			then		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Air only presses on tall people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 presses	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 presses	advmod
3	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 people	amod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 presses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	Air					on tall people	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on people=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Air presses from all sides, even from inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 presses	nsubj
2	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 sides	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 sides	det
5	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 presses	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 inside	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	9 inside	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 inside	case
9	inside	inside	ADV	_	2 presses	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	Air			all sides		inside property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Air weighs nothing at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 weighs	nsubj
2	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 weighs	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 weighs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	Air	nothing		all			vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme at all=Value

Option 4

Your skin is too tough and thick to feel it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 skin	nmod:poss
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tough	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 tough	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 tough	advmod
5	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thick	cc
7	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 tough	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 feel	mark
9	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 thick	xcomp
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 feel	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 feel	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your skin			tough property	tree rules
2	be		Your skin not said here				tree rules
3	feel	to-infinitive	Your skin not said here	skin	all		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme at all=Location

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