Test 3 · Lifting and carrying heavy things

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 3 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	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	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	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 · ← Mova's choice

Close loads are heavier than far ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 loads	amod
2	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavier	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	cop
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 ones	case
6	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ones	amod
7	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Close loads					than far ones; heavy property	tree rules

Option 2

Your back is the best muscle for lifting

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 back	nmod:poss
2	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 muscle	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 muscle	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 muscle	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 muscle	amod
6	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 lifting	case
8	lifting	lifting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 muscle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Your back	the best muscle				for lifting	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Your legs are stronger than your back for lifting

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 legs	nmod:poss
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stronger	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stronger	cop
4	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	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 stronger	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 lifting	case
9	lifting	lifting	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Your legs					than your back for lifting; strong property	tree rules

Option 4

Bending your knees makes lifting harder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bending	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 makes	csubj
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 knees	nmod:poss
3	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bending	obj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	lifting	lifting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obj
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	gerund		your knees					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material
2	make	present	Bending	lifting				hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lifting=Product

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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