Test 9 · ★ · Skating and sports safety
A skater falls forward and slides on her knee pads and wrist guards. Why does it hurt less?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: skater, it · What happens: fall, slide, hurt · To what, where: knee pads
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 6 «Skating and sports safety» 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
Sentence 1: A skater falls forward and slides on her knee pads and wrist guards.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 skater | det |
| 2 | skater | skater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 falls | nsubj |
| 3 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 falls | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 slides | cc |
| 6 | slides | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 falls | conj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 pads | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 pads | nmod:poss |
| 9 | knee | knee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pads | compound |
| 10 | pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 slides | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 guards | cc |
| 12 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 guards | compound |
| 13 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 pads | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 falls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | a skater | forward property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | slide | present | a skater not said here | skater's knee pads and wrist guards | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on pad=Trajectory |
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.
Sentence 2: Why does it hurt less?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurt | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hurt | nsubj |
| 4 | hurt | hurt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 hurt | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurt | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurt | present · do-support | it | less property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Sliding makes her fall slower in the air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sliding | slide | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 makes | xcomp |
| 5 | slower | slow | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 fall | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fall | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | make | present | her = she | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | her = she not said here | the air | slow property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in air=Location |
Option 2
She was lucky, pads do nothing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lucky | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | cop |
| 3 | lucky | lucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 5 | pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lucky | parataxis |
| 7 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 do | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | She | lucky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | present | pads | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The hard pads slide and take the blow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pads | det |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pads | amod |
| 3 | pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 slide | nsubj |
| 4 | slide | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 take | cc |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slide | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 blow | det |
| 8 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide | present | the hard pads | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | present | the hard pads not said here | the blow | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
Option 4
Pads make the ground softer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pads | pad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 make | nsubj |
| 2 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ground | det |
| 4 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 make | obj |
| 5 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 2 make | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Pads | the ground | soft property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ground=Product |
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