Test 8 · ★ · Floating in the real world: ice, submarines and balloons
You push a resting paper clip through the water's skin. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: push, rest, happen · To what, where: resting paper clip, skin
This is test 8 · ★ 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: You push a resting paper clip through the water's skin.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 push | nsubj |
| 2 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 clip | det |
| 4 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 clip | amod |
| 5 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 clip | compound |
| 6 | clip | clip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 push | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 skin | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 skin | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 water | case |
| 11 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 push | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 push | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | present | You | a resting paper clip | the water's skin | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent clip=Theme through skin=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | rest | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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.
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
It stays hanging halfway down the glass
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 stays | nsubj |
| 2 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 stays | xcomp |
| 4 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 3 hanging | advmod |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 glass | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 glass | det |
| 7 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hanging | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | the glass | halfway property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme down glass=Destination |
Option 2
It jumps right out of the water again
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 jumps | nsubj |
| 2 | jumps | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | right | right | ADV | _ | 2 jumps | advmod |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumps | obl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 jumps | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump | present | It | the water | again | right property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Trajectory |
Option 3
It floats back up to the surface
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 floats | nsubj |
| 2 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 up | advmod |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 floats | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 surface | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 surface | det |
| 7 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floats | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | It | the surface | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to surface=Destination |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It sinks straight to the bottom
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 sinks | nsubj |
| 2 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 2 sinks | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bottom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bottom | det |
| 6 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sinks | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | present | It | to the bottom; straight property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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