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Test 10 · ★ · Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons

A hot-air balloon pilot stops firing the burner. What happens?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: balloon pilot · What happens: stop, fire, happen · To what, where: burner

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 12 «Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons» 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

Sentence 1: A hot-air balloon pilot stops firing the burner.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pilot	det
2	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 air	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 hot	punct
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 balloon	compound
5	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pilot	compound
6	pilot	pilot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stops	nsubj
7	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	firing	fire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stops	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 burner	det
10	burner	burner	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 firing	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 stops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	a balloon pilot						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	fire	gerund	a balloon pilot not said here	the burner					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burner=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.

Sentence 2: What happens?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

The balloon pops with a big bang

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 balloon	det
2	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pops	nsubj
3	pops	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 bang	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bang	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bang	amod
7	bang	bang	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pop	present	the balloon					with a big bang	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with bang=Theme

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

The balloon slowly sinks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 balloon	det
2	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sinks	nsubj
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	4 sinks	advmod
4	sinks	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	present	the balloon					slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

The balloon shoots straight up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 balloon	det
2	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shoots	nsubj
3	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	straight	straight	ADV	_	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	3 shoots	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	present	the balloon						vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Nothing at all changes up there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 changes	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 changes	compound:prt
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 changes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change up	present	Nothing			there			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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