Test 2 · ★ · Balance and falling well

Which stance is hardest to push over?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: stance · What happens: be, push over

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 stance	det
2	stance	stance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hardest	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hardest	cop
4	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 push	mark
6	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hardest	advcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	6 push	compound:prt
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hardest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which stance					hard property	tree rules
2	push over	to-infinitive	which stance not said here						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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 and knees bent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bent	nsubj:pass
2	apart	apart	ADV	_	1 Feet	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 knees	cc
4	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Feet	conj
5	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	participle · passive		Feet and knees					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material

Option 2

Standing on one foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 foot	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 foot	nummod
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Standing	obl

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

Option 3

Standing on tiptoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 tiptoe	case
3	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 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

Feet together and legs straight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	together	together	ADV	_	1 Feet	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 legs	cc
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Feet	conj
5	straight	straight	ADV	_	1 Feet	advmod

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

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