Test 4 · ★ · Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely

Which feeling is most like a lift starting to go down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: feeling, lift · What happens: be, start, go down

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 3 «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 feeling	det
2	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lift	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lift	cop
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 lift	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 lift	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lift	det
7	lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	starting	start	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 lift	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 starting	xcomp
11	down	down	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 lift	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	which feeling	like a lift	tree rules
2	start	gerund	a lift not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	go down	to-infinitive	a lift not said here	down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

Walking slowly up a long flight of stairs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Walking	advmod
3	up	up	ADP	_	6 flight	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 flight	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 flight	amod
6	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walking	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 stairs	case
8	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flight	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund				a long flight of stairs		slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up flight=Trajectory

Option 2

Standing very still in a long queue at school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 still	advmod
3	still	still	ADV	_	1 Standing	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 queue	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 queue	det
6	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 queue	amod
7	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Standing	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 school	case
9	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 queue	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund				a long queue at school	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in queue=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Going over a hump-backed bridge in a car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	7 bridge	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bridge	det
4	hump	hump	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 backed	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 hump	punct
6	backed	back	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 bridge	amod
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Going	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 car	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 car	det
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund				a backed bridge		in a car	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Initial_Location
2	back	participle							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Lying quietly in bed at night, half asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 asleep	csubj
2	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	1 Lying	advmod
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 bed	case
4	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lying	punct
8	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	9 asleep	advmod
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				bed	night	quietly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location

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