Test 2 · ★ · The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them
In a film the hero lets go of a sling and the stone curves round the corner. What would really happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: hero, stone · What happens: let, go, curve, happen · To what, where: film
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2 «The Moon, the planets and the pull that holds them» 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
Sentence 1: In a film the hero lets go of a sling and the stone curves round the corner.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 film | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 film | det |
| 3 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lets | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hero | det |
| 5 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lets | nsubj |
| 6 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 lets | xcomp |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sling | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sling | det |
| 10 | sling | sling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 curves | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 curves | nsubj |
| 14 | curves | curve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lets | conj |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 17 corner | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 corner | det |
| 17 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 curves | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | present | the hero | a film | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | the hero not said here | of a sling | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of sling=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | curve | present | the stone | round the corner | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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.
Sentence 2: What would really happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 3 | really | really | ADV | _ | 4 happen | advmod |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | would | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
It flies off in a straight line
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 flies | nsubj |
| 2 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 flies | compound:prt |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 line | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 line | det |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 line | amod |
| 7 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flies | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly off | present | It | a straight line | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in line=Location |
Option 2
It flies straight back to the hero
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 flies | nsubj |
| 2 | flies | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 back | advmod |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 flies | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hero | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hero | det |
| 7 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 flies | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | present | It | to the hero result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to hero=Result |
Option 3
It drops straight down to the ground at once
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 drops | nsubj |
| 2 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 4 down | advmod |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 drops | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drops | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 drops | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | It | the ground | down property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent to ground=Destination at once=Initial_Location |
Option 4
It keeps curving round in a circle
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 keeps | nsubj |
| 2 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | curving | curve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 keeps | xcomp |
| 4 | round | round | ADV | _ | 3 curving | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 circle | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 circle | det |
| 7 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 curving | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | It | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | curve | gerund | a circle | round property | vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material |
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.
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