Test 10 · ★★ · Swings and pendulums

How is a roller coaster like a swing?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: roller coaster · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★★ of lesson 10 «Swings and pendulums» 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	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coaster	det
4	roller	roller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coaster	compound
5	coaster	coaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 swing	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 swing	det
8	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coaster	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a roller coaster like a swing					how property	tree rules

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

It always goes back and forth

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 goes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 goes	advmod
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 forth	cc
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	4 back	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	present	It					always property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

Option 2

It is pushed by a person

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 pushed	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pushed	aux:pass
3	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 person	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 person	det
6	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present · passive	a person	It					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It swaps height and speed on every hill

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	2 swaps	nsubj
2	swaps	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swaps	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 speed	cc
5	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 height	conj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swaps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	present	It	height and speed		every hill			vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=Theme

Option 4

It has the same rhythm as a clock

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	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rhythm	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rhythm	amod
5	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
6	as	as	ADP	_	8 clock	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 clock	det
8	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rhythm	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	the same rhythm				as a clock	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rhythm=Patient

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