Test 8 · Lifting and carrying heavy things

What would be the wisest thing if a sofa needs moving?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sofa · What happens: be, need, move · To what, where: wisest thing

This is test 8 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 thing	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	wisest	wise	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 needs	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 sofa	det
9	sofa	sofa	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 needs	nsubj
10	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	advcl
11	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 needs	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	would		the wisest thing	tree rules
2	need a condition, not said to happen	present	a sofa		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	move not said to happen	gerund	a sofa not said here		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

One child pulls it alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 child	nummod
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	nsubj
3	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulls	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 pulls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	One child	it				alone property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Push it over and roll it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Push	obj
3	over	over	ADP	_	1 Push	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 roll	cc
5	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Push	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 roll	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push over	imperative	you not said here	it					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	roll	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Lift one end by bending your back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 end	nummod
3	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lift	obj
4	by	by	SCONJ	_	5 bending	mark
5	bending	bend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Lift	advcl
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 back	nmod:poss
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bending	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	imperative	you not said here	one end					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme
2	bend	gerund	you not said here	your back					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent back=Material

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Several people lift it together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 people	amod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lift	nsubj
3	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lift	obj
5	together	together	ADV	_	3 lift	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	present	Several people	it				together property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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