Test 9 · ★ · Balance and falling well

Why does tucking your chin help when you fall backwards?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: tuck, help, fall · To what, where: chin

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	3 tucking	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tucking	aux
3	tucking	tuck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 help	nsubj
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 chin	nmod:poss
5	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tucking	obj
6	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 fall	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 fall	nsubj
9	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 help	advcl
10	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	9 fall	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tuck	present · do-support		your chin		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chin=Theme
2	help	present				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	fall	present	you		backwards 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

It keeps your mouth closed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mouth	nmod:poss
4	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	your mouth					tree rules
2	close	participle	your mouth not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It helps you see the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sky	det
6	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	you					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	see	infinitive	you not said here	the sky					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sky=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It keeps the back of your head off the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 back	det
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 head	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 back	nmod
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the back of your head				off the ground	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=Theme

Option 4

It makes you fall more slowly so you land gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 slowly	advmod
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 land	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 land	nsubj
9	land	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 makes	advcl
10	gently	gently	ADV	_	9 land	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	you		tree rules
2	fall	infinitive	you not said here		slowly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	land	present	you		gently property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent

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