Test 11 · ★ · Balance and falling well

bus wobbling, how do i not fall over standing

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: i · What happens: not fall over, stand

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wobbling	compound
2	wobbling	wobbling	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fall	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 fall	advmod
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fall	aux
6	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 fall	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fall	advmod
8	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wobbling	conj
9	over	over	ADV	_	10 standing	advmod
10	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 fall	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall over	present · do-support	i						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	gerund	i not said here					over property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Feet apart, knees a bit bent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 apart	obl:unmarked
2	apart	apart	ADV	_	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 apart	punct
4	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 apart	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bent	obl:unmarked
7	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 knees	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	participle	knees not said here	a bit					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Feet together, legs stiff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stiff	nsubj
2	together	together	ADV	_	1 Feet	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 legs	punct
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Feet	conj
5	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Stand on tiptoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 tiptoe	case
3	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			tiptoe			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location

Option 4

Close your eyes and hold still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Close	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hold	cc
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Close	conj
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here	your eyes					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2	hold	infinitive	you not said here				still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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