Test 9 · ★ · Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors

Why should you push a swinging door slowly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: push, swing · To what, where: swinging door

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 217 «Kitchen tools, the freezer, plugs and doors» 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	4 push	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 push	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 push	nsubj
4	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 door	det
6	swinging	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 door	amod
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 push	obj
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 push	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 push	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	should	you	a swinging door				slowly property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme
2	swing	gerund							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Slow doors make no noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 doors	amod
2	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 noise	det
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Slow doors	no noise					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Someone may be on the other side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 side	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 side	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 side	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	may	Someone			the other side			tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Doors break if they are pushed too slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 break	nsubj
2	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 pushed	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 pushed	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 pushed	aux:pass
6	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 break	advcl
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 slowly	advmod
8	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	6 pushed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	Doors						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	push a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		Doors = door				slowly property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

Fast pushing saves energy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pushing	amod
2	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 saves	csubj
3	saves	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund							vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	save	present	pushing	energy					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme

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