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Test 1 · ★ · Balance and falling well

A boy in Leeds trips on a pavement and feels himself falling forward. What is the safest way to land?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, safest way · What happens: feel, fall, be, land · To what, where: boy

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 2 «Balance and falling well» 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

Sentence 1: A boy in Leeds trips on a pavement and feels himself falling forward.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feels	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 trips	case
4	Leeds	Leeds	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 trips	compound
5	trips	trip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 boy	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 pavement	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pavement	det
8	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 trips	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 trips	cc
10	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 feels	obj
12	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 feels	advcl
13	forward	forward	ADV	_	12 falling	advmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 feels	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	a boy in Leeds trips on a pavement	boy					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	fall	gerund	a boy in Leeds trips on a pavement not said here					forward property	vn occur-48.3 «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.

Sentence 2: What is the safest way to land?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 way	amod
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 land	mark
7	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 way	acl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the safest way						tree rules
2	land	to-infinitive	the safest way not said here						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Keep his body straight like a plank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 body	nmod:poss
3	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	1 Keep	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 plank	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plank	det
7	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	his body				like a plank; straight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Throw out one stiff arm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Throw	compound:prt
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 arm	nummod
4	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 arm	amod
5	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw out	imperative	you not said here	one stiff arm					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Bend his arms and roll onto his side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arms	nmod:poss
3	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bend	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 roll	cc
5	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Bend	conj
6	onto	onto	ADP	_	8 side	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 side	nmod:poss
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 roll	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	imperative	you not said here	his arms					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent arm=Material
2	roll	infinitive	you not said here			his side			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto side=Trajectory

Option 4

Land on his chin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 chin	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 chin	nmod:poss
4	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Land	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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