Test 4 · Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth

What would happen if you dug a hole right through the Earth and climbed in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, dig, climb · To what, where: hole

This is test 4 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 dug	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 dug	nsubj
6	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hole	det
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dug	obj
9	right	right	ADV	_	12 Earth	advmod
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 Earth	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Earth	det
12	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dug	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 climbed	cc
14	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dug	conj
15	in	in	ADV	_	14 climbed	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dig a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a hole	through the Earth	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent hole=Instrument through earth=Patient
3	climb	past	you not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Once past the middle, "down" would turn into "up"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	10 turn	advmod
2	past	past	ADP	_	4 middle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Once	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 down	punct
7	down	down	ADV	_	10 turn	advmod
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 down	punct
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 turn	aux
10	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 up	case
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 up	punct
13	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	obl
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would				up		down, once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into up=Trajectory

Option 2

You would get heavier and heavier all the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 get	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 heavier	cc
6	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 heavier	conj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 way	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 get	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	would	You	all way				heavy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

You would fall out the other side into space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 fall	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 side	det
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 side	amod
7	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl:unmarked
8	into	into	ADP	_	9 space	case
9	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall out	would	You	the other side				into space result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into space=Result

Option 4

You would float in the hole from the start

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hole	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hole	det
6	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 start	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 start	det
9	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	You			the hole		from the start	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in hole=Source from start=Trajectory

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