Test 12 · Lifting and carrying heavy things

backpack on 1 shoulder looks cooler tbh

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: backpack · What happens: look

This is test 12 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	backpack	backpack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looks	nsubj
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 shoulder	case
3	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 shoulder	nummod
4	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 backpack	nmod
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cooler	cool	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 looks	xcomp
7	tbh	tbh	ADV	_	5 looks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	backpack on 1 shoulder					cool, tbh property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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

Wear it on both shoulders for your back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Wear	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 shoulders	case
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 shoulders	det
5	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Wear	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 back	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 back	nmod:poss
8	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wear	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	imperative	you not said here	it		both shoulders		for your back	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

One shoulder is better for your back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 shoulder	nummod
2	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 back	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	One shoulder					for your back; good property	tree rules

Option 3

Swap shoulders every few years to keep it even

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swap	swap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shoulders	compound
2	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	nsubj
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 years	det
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 years	amod
5	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 keep	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj
9	even	even	ADV	_	7 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive	Swap shoulders	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

It does not matter at all

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	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 matter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It			all			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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