Test 18 · Lifting and carrying heavy things

they reckon at school if your backpack's too heavy your spine goes permanently bendy forever

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they, heavy spine · What happens: reckon, go · To what, where: school

This is test 18 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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckon	nsubj
2	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 school	case
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckon	obl
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 goes	mark
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 backpack	nmod:poss
7	backpack	backpack	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 spine	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 backpack	case
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 heavy	advmod
10	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 spine	amod
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 spine	nmod:poss
12	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 goes	nsubj
13	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckon	advcl
14	permanently	permanently	ADV	_	15 bendy	advmod
15	bendy	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 goes	xcomp
16	forever	forever	ADV	_	13 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	they			school			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	go a condition, not said to happen	present	your backpack's heavy spine					bendy, forever property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 is true, so children should never carry anything

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 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carry	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 carry	advmod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carry	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 carry	aux
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 carry	advmod
9	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 true	conj
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	not carry	should	children	anything					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

That is likely blown up; a heavy bag can make your back ache, so pack it light and wear both straps

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	blown	blow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 likely	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 blown	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 make	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bag	det
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bag	amod
9	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 likely	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ache	nmod:poss
13	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ache	compound
14	ache	ache	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pack	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 pack	advmod
17	pack	pack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 pack	obj
19	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pack	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 wear	cc
21	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 make	conj
22	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	23 straps	det
23	straps	strap	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	That		likely property	tree rules
2	blow up	participle	That not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	make	can	a heavy bag	your back ache		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material ache=Product
4	pack	infinitive	a heavy bag not said here	ache		tree rules
5	wear	infinitive	a heavy bag not said here	both straps		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent strap=Theme
6	ache		your			nom ache «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

It is true, so backpacks should be carried on one shoulder

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 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	9 carried	advmod
6	backpacks	backpack	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 carried	nsubj:pass
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 carried	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 carried	aux:pass
9	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 true	parataxis
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 shoulder	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 shoulder	nummod
12	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					true property	tree rules
2	carry	should · passive		backpacks		one shoulder			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 4

It is fully true, one heavy day bends the spine for life

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 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	cop
3	fully	fully	ADV	_	4 true	advmod
4	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bends	punct
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 day	nummod
7	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 day	amod
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bends	nsubj
9	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 true	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 spine	det
11	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bends	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 life	case
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bends	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					fully, true property	tree rules
2	bend	present	one heavy day	the spine				for life	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent spine=Material

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