Test 11 · ★★ · Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums

Would a vacuum cleaner work on the Moon, with no air at all?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 16 «Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums» 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	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 work	aux
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 work	det
3	vacuum	vacuum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cleaner	compound
4	cleaner	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	compound
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 Moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Moon	det
8	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 work	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 air	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 air	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 air	det
12	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 work	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 air	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 work	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1

Yes, and it would work even better there than at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 work	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 work	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 work	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 work	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 work	aux
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 better	advmod
8	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 work	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 home	case
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 home	case
12	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	would	it			there		than home	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Only if you turned it right up to full power first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 turned	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	obj
6	right	right	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
7	up	up	ADP	_	10 power	case
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 power	case
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 power	amod
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turned	obl
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 turned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	you	it		full power		first, right property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme up power=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, there is no outside air to push the dust in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 is	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 air	det
6	outside	outside	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 air	amod
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 push	mark
9	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 air	acl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dust	det
11	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 push	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	9 push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	no outside air			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	push	to-infinitive	no outside air not said here	the dust					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Theme

Option 4

Yes, but it would only pick up the grey Moon dust

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 pick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 pick	cc
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pick	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 pick	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 pick	advmod
7	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 pick	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 dust	det
10	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 dust	amod
11	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dust	compound
12	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	would	it	the grey Moon dust					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Topic

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