Test 7 · ★★ · Pressure tricks: pumps, tyres and vacuums

Which shows warmth making air push harder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: air · What happens: show, make, push · To what, where: warmth, air

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 shows	nsubj
2	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	warmth	warmth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shows	obj
4	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 shows	advcl
5	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 making	obj
6	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 making	xcomp
7	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 push	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show	present		warmth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent warmth=Recipient
2	make	gerund		air		tree rules
3	push	infinitive	air not said here		hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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

A cold balloon growing back to full size as it warms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 balloon	det
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 balloon	amod
3	balloon	balloon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	growing	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 balloon	acl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 growing	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 size	case
7	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 size	amod
8	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 growing	obl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 warms	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 warms	nsubj
11	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 growing	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow back	gerund	a cold balloon not said here					to full size	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	warm	present	size						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

A tyre going flat from a nail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tyre	det
2	tyre	tyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tyre	acl
4	flat	flat	ADV	_	3 going	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 nail	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nail	det
7	nail	nail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund	a tyre not said here			a nail		flat property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from nail=Initial_Location

Option 3

Ketchup squirting out of a bottle when you squeeze it hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ketchup	ketchup	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	squirting	squirt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Ketchup	acl
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 bottle	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bottle	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bottle	det
6	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squirting	obl
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 squeeze	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 squeeze	nsubj
9	squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 squirting	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 squeeze	obj
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 squeeze	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squirt	gerund	Ketchup not said here			a bottle			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out bottle=Destination
2	squeeze	present	you	bottle				hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

A sucker sticking to the tiles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sucker	det
2	sucker	sucker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sticking	stick	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sucker	acl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 tiles	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tiles	det
6	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sticking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	gerund	a sucker not said here					to the tiles	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to tile=Co-Patient

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