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Test 10 · ★★★ · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

An egg dropped onto a pillow does not break, but one dropped onto a stone floor does. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: egg, pillow, one, stone floor · What happens: drop, not break, do

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» 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.

The question

Sentence 1: An egg dropped onto a pillow does not break, but one dropped onto a stone floor does.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 egg	det
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dropped	nsubj
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	onto	onto	ADP	_	9 break	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pillow	det
6	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 break	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 break	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 break	advmod
9	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dropped	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dropped	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 dropped	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 dropped	nsubj
13	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	conj
14	onto	onto	ADP	_	18 does	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 floor	det
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 floor	compound
17	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 does	nsubj
18	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dropped	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	a egg						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	not break	present · do-support	a pillow						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	drop	past	one						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	do	present	a stone floor						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The pillow makes the egg's shell harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pillow	det
2	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 egg	det
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shell	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 egg	case
7	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
8	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the pillow	the egg's shell				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shell=Product

Option 2

The egg falls more slowly onto pillows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 egg	det
2	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 slowly	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 falls	advmod
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	7 pillows	case
7	pillows	pillow	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	the egg			pillows		slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme onto pillow=Initial_Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The pillow lets it stop more slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pillow	det
2	pillow	pillow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lets	nsubj
3	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lets	obj
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lets	xcomp
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 slowly	advmod
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	the pillow	it					tree rules
2	stop	infinitive						slowly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

The stone floor pulls the egg down faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 floor	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 floor	compound
3	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	nsubj
4	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 egg	det
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	4 pulls	advmod
8	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 pulls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	present	the stone floor	the egg				down, fast property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme

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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