Test 1 · The air presses on everything

mate says air don't weigh nothing, it's just air. right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate · What happens: say, not weigh, be · To what, where: air, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 of lesson 14 «The air presses on everything» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weigh	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 weigh	advmod
6	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 weigh	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 air	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 air	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 air	cop
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 air	advmod
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weigh	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 weigh	punct
14	right	right	INTJ	_	6 weigh	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	mate	air	tree rules
2	not weigh	present · do-support		nothing	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme nothing=Value
3	is a	present	mate	air	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

Yes, air is weightless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 weightless	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weightless	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 weightless	cop
5	weightless	weightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	air					weightless property	tree rules

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

No, air has weight, a classroom's air weighs as much as several kids

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 air	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 weighs	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 classroom	det
8	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 air	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 classroom	case
10	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 weighs	nsubj
11	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
12	as	as	ADV	_	13 much	advmod
13	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 weighs	obj
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 kids	case
15	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 kids	amod
16	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 much	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	air	weight					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
2	weigh	present	a classroom's air	much					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value

Option 3

Yes, only wet air has weight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 has	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 air	advmod
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 air	amod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	wet air	weight					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient

Option 4

No, but only air inside a balloon weighs anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	9 weighs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 weighs	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 weighs	cc
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 air	advmod
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weighs	nsubj
6	inside	inside	ADP	_	8 balloon	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 balloon	det
8	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 air	nmod
9	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 weighs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weigh	present	air inside a balloon	anything					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme anything=Value

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