Test 11 · Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth

How fast would you need to throw a ball so it never came back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, ball · What happens: need, throw, not come back · To what, where: ball

This is test 11 of lesson 1 «Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth» of the physics 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 fast	advmod
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 need	advmod
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 throw	mark
7	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 need	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ball	det
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 throw	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 came	advmod
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 throw	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 came	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	would	you		fast property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	throw not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	a ball		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
3	not come back	past	ball			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP 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 · ← Mova's choice

About 100 kilometres every single hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 100	advmod
2	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hour	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hour	amod
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kilometres	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

No speed at all could ever manage it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 speed	det
2	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 manage	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 all	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 speed	nmod
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 manage	aux
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 manage	advmod
7	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 manage	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	manage	could	no speed at all	it			ever		vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

About 11 kilometres every second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	About	about	ADV	_	2 11	advmod
2	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	3 kilometres	nummod
3	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 second	det
5	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kilometres	nmod:unmarked

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

As fast as a racing car on a track

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	ADV	_	2 fast	advmod
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	as	as	ADP	_	6 car	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
5	racing	racing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 car	compound
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fast	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 track	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 track	det
9	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 car	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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