Test 8 · The air presses on everything

Which is true about the push of the air?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: air · What happens: be, push

This is test 8 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 push	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 push	det
6	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 air	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 air	det
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 push	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about the push of the air; true property	tree rules
2	push		the air						nom push «act intransitive»: of=agent

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

It presses on every side, up, down and sideways

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 presses	nsubj
2	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 side	case
4	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 side	det
5	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 presses	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 up	punct
7	up	up	ADV	_	2 presses	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 down	punct
9	down	down	ADV	_	2 presses	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sideways	cc
11	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	9 down	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	It					on every side; down property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on side=Theme

Option 2

It only presses on things when the wind is blowing hard

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 presses	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 presses	advmod
3	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 things	case
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 presses	obl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 blowing	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blowing	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 blowing	aux
10	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 presses	advcl
11	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 blowing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	It					on things	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on thing=Theme
2	blow	present · progressive	the wind					hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It only presses on things that are outdoors, never indoors

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 presses	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 presses	advmod
3	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 things	case
5	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 presses	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 outdoors	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 outdoors	cop
8	outdoors	outdoors	ADV	_	5 things	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 indoors	punct
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 indoors	advmod
11	indoors	indoors	ADV	_	3 presses	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	It					on things; indoors property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on thing=Theme
2	is	present	things					outdoors property	tree rules

Option 4

It only presses downwards, from the sky above us onto the ground

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 presses	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 presses	advmod
3	presses	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	downwards	downwards	ADV	_	3 presses	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sky	punct
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 presses	obl
9	above	above	ADP	_	10 us	case
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 sky	nmod
11	onto	onto	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 presses	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	present	It			the sky above us		onto the ground; downwards property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent onto ground=Trajectory

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