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Test 8 · ★★ · Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests

In a cartoon, a cannonball smashes the floor while a feather drifts down, and a robot says gravity pulls the cannonball harder. What should he say instead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cannonball, feather, robot, gravity · What happens: smash, drift down, say, pull · To what, where: floor, cartoon, cannonball · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 29 «Let's test it! Experiments and fair tests» of the myths 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: In a cartoon, a cannonball smashes the floor while a feather drifts down, and a robot says gravity pulls the cannonball harder.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cannonball	det
6	cannonball	cannonball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashes	nsubj
7	smashes	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashes	obj
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 drifts	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 feather	det
12	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 drifts	nsubj
13	drifts	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 smashes	advcl
14	down	down	ADV	_	13 drifts	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 says	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 says	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 robot	det
18	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 says	nsubj
19	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 smashes	conj
20	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pulls	nsubj
21	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 says	ccomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cannonball	det
23	cannonball	cannonball	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pulls	obj
24	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 pulls	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 smashes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	present	a cannonball	the floor		a cartoon			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent floor=Theme in cartoon=Destination
2	drift down	present	a feather					down property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	present	a robot						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	pull	present	gravity	the cannonball				hard property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cannonball=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.

Sentence 2: What should he say instead?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 say	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	instead	instead	ADV	_	4 say	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	should	gravity					instead property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Air slows the feather; without air they'd fall together

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slows	nsubj
2	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 feather	det
4	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slows	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 fall	punct
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 air	case
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fall	obl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fall	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fall	aux
10	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 slows	parataxis
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow	present	Air	the feather					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	fall together	would	they					without air; together property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The feather is too clever to fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 feather	det
2	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clever	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fall	mark
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 clever	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the feather					clever property	tree rules
2	fall	to-infinitive	the feather not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cannonballs have their own gravity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cannonballs	cannonball	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gravity	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 gravity	amod
5	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Cannonballs	Cannonballs's own gravity					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gravity=Patient

Option 4

He's right, heavy things are always pulled down much faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pulled	punct
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pulled	nsubj:pass
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 pulled	aux:pass
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 pulled	advmod
9	pulled	pull	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 right	parataxis
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 pulled	compound:prt
11	much	much	ADV	_	12 faster	advmod
12	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 pulled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	pull down	present · passive		heavy things				always, fast property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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