Test 14 · ★★★ · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

why do they put foam in helmets

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: they · What happens: put · To what, where: foam, helmets

This is test 14 · ★★★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 put	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 put	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 helmets	case
7	helmets	helmet	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	present · do-support	they	foam		helmets			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foam=Theme in helmet=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It lets your head stop more slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lets	nsubj
2	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nsubj
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 lets	ccomp
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	It						tree rules
2	stop	present	your head					slowly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

It keeps your head warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 head	nmod:poss
4	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	your head				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme

Option 3

It makes the helmet heavier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 helmet	det
4	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the helmet				heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material helmet=Product

Option 4

It holds the helmet on tight so it never falls off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 helmet	det
4	helmet	helmet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 holds	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 tight	case
6	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 holds	obl
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 falls	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 falls	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 falls	advmod
10	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 holds	advcl
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 falls	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	It	the helmet		tight			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent helmet=Theme on tight=Location
2	not fall off	present	helmet						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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