Test 3 · ★★★ · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

Why do gymnasts land on thick mats and not on the hard floor?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: gymnasts · What happens: land · To what, where: thick mats

This is test 3 · ★★★ 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 land	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 land	aux
3	gymnasts	gymnast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 land	nsubj
4	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 mats	case
6	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mats	amod
7	mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 land	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 floor	cc
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 floor	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 floor	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 floor	det
12	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 floor	amod
13	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mats	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 land	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	land	present · do-support	gymnasts			thick mats and the hard floor			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on mat=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

The floor would pull them down harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 floor	det
2	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pull	aux
4	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pull	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	4 pull	compound:prt
7	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 pull	advmod

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

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

The mat lets them stop more slowly and gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mat	det
2	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lets	nsubj
3	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur 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
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 gently	cc
9	gently	gently	ADV	_	7 slowly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present	the mat	them = they					tree rules
2	stop	infinitive	them = they not said here					slowly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Mats make gymnasts lighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gymnasts	gymnast	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	obj
4	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Mats	gymnasts				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gymnast=Product

Option 4

Mats make them jump higher next time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mats	mat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	higher	high	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 jump	advmod
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Mats	them = they					tree rules
2	jump	infinitive	them = they not said here				time	high property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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