Test 6 · Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth

Without air, how would a raindrop from a high cloud arrive?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: raindrop · What happens: arrive

This is test 6 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	Without	without	ADP	_	2 air	case
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arrive	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 air	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 arrive	advmod
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 arrive	aux
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 raindrop	det
7	raindrop	raindrop	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 arrive	nsubj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 cloud	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 cloud	det
10	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cloud	amod
11	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 raindrop	nmod
12	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 arrive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	would	a raindrop from a high cloud					without air	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

Just as gently as now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 gently	advmod
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 gently	advmod
3	gently	gently	ADV	_	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	5 now	case
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 gently	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Faster than a racing car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
2	than	than	ADP	_	5 car	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 car	det
4	racing	racing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 car	compound
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Faster	obl

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

Option 3

It would float back to the cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 float	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 cloud	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cloud	det
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float back	would	It			the cloud			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cloud=Destination

Option 4

It would never reach the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reach	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 reach	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 reach	advmod
4	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not reach	would	It	the ground					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=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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