Test 7 · Lifting and carrying heavy things

Why do removal workers bend their knees when they pick up boxes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: removal workers, workers · What happens: bend, pick up · To what, where: knees, boxes

This is test 7 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 bend	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bend	aux
3	removal	removal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 workers	compound
4	workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bend	nsubj
5	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knees	nmod:poss
7	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bend	obj
8	when	when	SCONJ	_	10 pick	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pick	nsubj
10	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bend	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 pick	compound:prt
12	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 pick	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	present · do-support	removal workers	workers's knees					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent knee=Material
2	pick up	present	workers = worker	boxes					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Topic

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 helps them see the box better from close up

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	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 helps	obj
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 helps	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 box	det
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obj
7	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 see	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 close	case
9	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 better	obl
10	up	up	ADV	_	9 close	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	It	them = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	see	infinitive	them = they not said here	the box				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Their strong leg muscles do the work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 muscles	nmod:poss
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 muscles	amod
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 muscles	compound
4	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 work	det
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	Their strong leg muscles	the work					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality

Option 3

It is a rule only for adults

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 rule	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 rule	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	7 adults	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 adults	case
7	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rule	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rule				for adults	tree rules

Option 4

It makes the boxes lighter

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	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boxes	det
4	boxes	box	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the boxes				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material box=Product

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