Test 8 · ★★ · Swings and pendulums

Why must the area round a wrecking ball be cleared of people?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: clear · To what, where: area

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 cleared	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cleared	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 area	det
4	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cleared	nsubj:pass
5	round	round	ADP	_	8 ball	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ball	det
7	wrecking	wrecking	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ball	compound
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 area	nmod
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 cleared	aux:pass
10	cleared	clear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cleared	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 cleared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clear	must · passive		the area round a wrecking ball				of people	vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme of people=Source

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

The ball can swing back towards the crane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swing	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 swing	aux
4	swing	swing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 swing	advmod
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 crane	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crane	det
8	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 swing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing back	can	the ball			the crane			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme towards crane=Trajectory

Option 2

The ball might float away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 float	nsubj
3	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 float	aux
4	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 float	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float away	might	the ball					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The noise is far too loud for people's ears to bear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 noise	det
2	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 loud	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 loud	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 loud	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 loud	advmod
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 ears	case
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ears	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 people	case
10	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 loud	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bear	mark
12	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 loud	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the noise					for people's ears; far, loud property	tree rules
2	bear	to-infinitive	the noise not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

The building pulls the ball in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 building	det
2	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	nsubj
3	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ball	det
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	3 pulls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	the building	the ball					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

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