Test 9 · ★★★ · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

Which person is least likely to fall over on a rocking boat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: person · What happens: be, fall over · To what, where: rocking boat

This is test 9 · ★★★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 likely	cop
4	least	least	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fall	mark
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 likely	xcomp
8	over	over	ADV	_	7 fall	advmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 boat	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boat	det
11	rocking	rocking	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 boat	compound
12	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fall	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which person					least, likely property	tree rules
2	fall over	to-infinitive	which person not said here			a rocking boat		over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on boat=Location

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

One standing with feet apart and knees bent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 standing	nsubj
2	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 feet	case
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 standing	obl
5	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 standing	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 knees	cc
7	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 standing	conj
8	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 knees	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	One					with feet; apart property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bend	participle		knees not said here					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

One standing with feet together and stiff legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 standing	nsubj
2	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 feet	case
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 standing	obl
5	together	together	ADV	_	2 standing	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 legs	cc
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 legs	amod
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 standing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	One					with feet; together property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

One standing on tiptoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 One	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 tiptoe	case
4	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund				tiptoe			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location

Option 4

One standing on one leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 One	acl
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 leg	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 leg	nummod
5	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 standing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund				one leg			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location

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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