Test 6 · ★★★ · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

Why do people sprinkle grit or sand on icy paths?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: sprinkle · To what, where: grit, icy paths

This is test 6 · ★★★ 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 sprinkle	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sprinkle	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sprinkle	nsubj
4	sprinkle	sprinkle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	grit	grit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sprinkle	obj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 sand	cc
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grit	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 paths	case
9	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 paths	amod
10	paths	path	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sprinkle	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sprinkle	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	present · do-support	people	grit or sand		icy paths			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grit=Theme on path=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 gives shoes more grip on the ice

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 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gives	iobj
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 grip	amod
5	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ice	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ice	det
8	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grip	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	It	more grip	shoes	the ice			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent shoe=Recipient grip=Theme on ice=Asset

Option 2

It makes the ice thicker

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 ice	det
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

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

Option 3

It makes the ice more slippery so it melts away faster

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 ice	det
4	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 slippery	advmod
6	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 melts	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 melts	nsubj
9	melts	melt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	advcl
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 melts	advmod
11	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 melts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the ice				slippery property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material ice=Product
2	melt away	present	ice					away, fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

It makes the path warmer at once

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 path	det
4	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 makes	obl

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

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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