Test 5 · ★ · Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing

Why is head-first sledding more dangerous than feet first?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: head first sledding

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 250 «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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	6 sledding	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sledding	cop
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sledding	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 head	punct
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 sledding	amod
6	sledding	sledding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dangerous	nsubj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 dangerous	advmod
8	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	than	than	ADP	_	10 feet	case
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dangerous	obl
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 dangerous	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		head first sledding					tree rules

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

You cannot steer with your feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 steer	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 steer	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 steer	advmod
4	steer	steer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 feet	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 feet	nmod:poss
7	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 steer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not steer	can	You					with your feet	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is slower

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	3 slower	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slower	cop
3	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					slow property	tree rules

Option 3

Your feet get cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 get	nsubj
3	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	Your feet					cold property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Your head hits obstacles first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 head	nmod:poss
2	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hits	nsubj
3	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	obstacles	obstacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hits	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 hits	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	Your head	obstacles				first property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme obstacle=Co-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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