Test 11 · Lifting and carrying heavy things

holding the heavy box, need to turn round, just twist?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: hold, need, turn round, twist · To what, where: heavy box

This is test 11 of lesson 3 «Lifting and carrying heavy things» 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	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 need	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 box	det
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 box	amod
4	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 holding	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 holding	punct
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 turn	mark
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 need	xcomp
9	round	round	ADV	_	8 turn	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 twist	punct
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 twist	advmod
12	twist	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 turn	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund	the heavy box		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
2	need	present			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	turn round not said to happen	to-infinitive		round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	twist	infinitive			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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 · ✓ the right answer

No, turn with your feet instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 turn	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 turn	punct
3	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 feet	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feet	nmod:poss
6	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 turn	obl
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here					with your feet; instead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, twisting is quickest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 twisting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	twisting	twist	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 quickest	csubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 quickest	cop
5	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	twisting					quick property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, but lean right back first so it is light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 lean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lean	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	4 lean	cc
4	lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 back	advmod
6	back	back	ADV	_	4 lean	advmod
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 lean	advmod
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 light	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 light	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 light	cop
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean	imperative	you not said here					first property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it					so light	tree rules

Option 4

Yes, if you twist fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 twist	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 twist	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 twist	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 twist	nsubj
5	twist	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 twist	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	present	you					fast property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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