Test 11 · Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push

Why can a tennis racket send the ball so fast?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tennis racket · What happens: send · To what, where: ball

This is test 11 of lesson 33 «Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 send	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 send	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 racket	det
4	tennis	tennis	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 racket	compound
5	racket	racket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 send	nsubj
6	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ball	det
8	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 send	obj
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 send	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 send	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	can	a tennis racket	the ball				fast property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

It works like a long arm, turning small wrist moves into big fast ones

The tree, 14 words

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 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	6 arm	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 arm	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 arm	amod
6	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turning	punct
8	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 moves	csubj
9	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wrist	amod
10	wrist	wrist	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turning	obj
11	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 works	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	15 ones	case
13	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
14	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 moves	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	present	It		like a long arm	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn	gerund		small wrist		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wrist=Theme
3	move	present	turning		into big fast ones	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into one=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It is heavier than the ball

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	3 heavier	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heavier	cop
3	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 ball	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ball	det
6	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heavier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					than the ball; heavy property	tree rules

Option 3

Its strings are magnetic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 strings	nmod:poss
2	strings	string	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 magnetic	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 magnetic	cop
4	magnetic	magnetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Its strings					magnetic property	tree rules

Option 4

It is full of springs that push the ball

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	3 full	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 full	cop
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 springs	case
5	springs	spring	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 full	obl
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 push	nsubj
7	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 springs	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ball	det
9	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 push	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It				spring	full property	tree rules
2	push	present	springs	the ball					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

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