Test 11 · ★★★ · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

bus stopped hard, we all went flying forward, why

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bus, we · What happens: stop, go, fly

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 stopped	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 went	punct
5	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 went	advmod
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
8	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 went	xcomp
9	forward	forward	ADV	_	8 flying	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 why	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 stopped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	past	bus	hard property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	go	past	we		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	fly	gerund	we not said here	forward property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Our bodies kept moving when the bus stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bodies	nmod:poss
2	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 stopped	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bus	det
7	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moving	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	keep	past	Our bodies	tree rules
2	move	gerund	Our bodies not said here	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	past	the bus	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

The bus pushed us forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bus	det
2	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	nsubj
3	pushed	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 pushed	obj
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 pushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	past	the bus	us				forward property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

Option 3

The brakes pulled us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brakes	det
2	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pulled	nsubj
3	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 pulled	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	past	the brakes	us					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent we=Result

Option 4

Gravity pulls forward on buses when they slow down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	nsubj
2	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	forward	forward	ADV	_	2 pulls	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 buses	case
5	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pulls	obl
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 slow	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slow	nsubj
8	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pulls	advcl
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 slow	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	Gravity					on buses; forward property	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on bus=Theme
2	slow down	present	buses = bus						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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