Test 6 · ★ · Wind and weather
oi, why's my kite just lying there, is it broke?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: oi, it, my · What happens: be, kite
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 15 «Wind and weather» 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 | oi | oi | X | Foreign=Yes | 8 lying | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lying | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 lying | advmod |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lying | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 kite | nmod:poss |
| 6 | kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lying | nsubj |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 lying | advmod |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 broke | csubj |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 lying | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lying | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 broke | cop |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 broke | nsubj |
| 13 | broke | broke | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 broke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | oi | there | lie property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | it | broke property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kite | my | nom kite «possession transitive»: poss=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
It needs to be filled with gas
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 needs | nsubj |
| 2 | needs | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 filled | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 filled | aux:pass |
| 5 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 needs | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 gas | case |
| 7 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 filled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | It | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | fill not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | with gas | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: with gas=Instrument |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Probably not, there is too little wind to push it up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Probably | probably | ADV | _ | 2 not | advmod |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 is | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 not | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 little | advmod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wind | amod |
| 8 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 push | mark |
| 10 | push | push | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 wind | acl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 push | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 push | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not be | present | little wind | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push up | to-infinitive | little wind not said here | wind | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Yes, kites only work brand new
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 work | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | kites | kite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 work | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 work | advmod |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | brand | brand | ADV | _ | 7 new | advmod |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 work | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | present | kites | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The string is too short to pull it up into the wind properly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 string | det |
| 2 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 short | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 short | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 short | advmod |
| 5 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pull | mark |
| 7 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 short | advcl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pull | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 pull | compound:prt |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 wind | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pull | obl |
| 13 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 7 pull | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the string | short property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pull up | to-infinitive | the string not said here | string | the wind | properly property | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/15-wind-and-weather/t6/