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Test 8 · ★ · Balance and falling well

A cat falls and lands with its legs bent. How do the bent legs help?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat, bent legs · What happens: fall, land, bend, do, help · To what, where: legs

This is test 8 · ★ 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 cat falls and lands with its legs bent.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cat	det
2	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 falls	nsubj
3	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lands	cc
5	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 falls	conj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 legs	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 legs	nmod:poss
8	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lands	obl
9	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 legs	acl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 falls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	a cat						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	land	present	a cat not said here					with cat's legs	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bend	participle		cat's legs not said here					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.

Sentence 2: How do the bent legs help?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 help	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 legs	det
4	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 legs	amod
5	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 help	nsubj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	the bent legs not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help	present	the bent legs						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

They slow the stop and soften the landing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slow	nsubj
2	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stop	det
4	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slow	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 soften	cc
6	soften	soften	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 slow	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 landing	det
8	landing	landing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 soften	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow	present	They	the stop					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stop=Patient
2	soften	infinitive	They not said here	the landing					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent landing=Patient

Option 2

They make the cat lighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the cat				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cat=Product

Option 3

They let the cat fall more slowly through the air to the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obj
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 slowly	advmod
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 fall	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 air	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 air	det
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	past	They	the cat					tree rules
2	fall	infinitive	the cat not said here			the air		to the ground; slowly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through air=Initial_Location to ground=Destination

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

They make the ground softer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ground	det
4	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	softer	soft	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the ground				soft property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ground=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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