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Test 2 · Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push

Your big brother sits on the seesaw and you can't lift him. What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big brother, you · What happens: sit, not lift, do · To what, where: seesaw, brother

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: Your big brother sits on the seesaw and you can't lift him.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brother	nmod:poss
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 brother	amod
3	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	nsubj
4	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 seesaw	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seesaw	det
7	seesaw	seesaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sits	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 lift	cc
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 lift	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 lift	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 lift	advmod
12	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 sits	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lift	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Your big brother			the seesaw			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seesaw=Location
2	not lift	can	you	brother					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.

Sentence 2: What should you do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	you						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Take your shoes off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shoes	nmod:poss
3	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Take	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	1 Take	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	imperative	you not said here	your shoes					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

Option 2

Push down more gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Push	compound:prt
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Push	advmod
4	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push down	imperative	you not said here					gently property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Ask him to move closer to the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 move	mark
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 move	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 middle	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 middle	det
8	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	move not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here			the middle		close property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to middle=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Sit closer to the middle yourself so you are nearer the pivot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Sit	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 middle	det
5	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 closer	obl
6	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Sit	obl:unmarked
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 nearer	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 nearer	nsubj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 nearer	cop
10	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Sit	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pivot	det
12	pivot	pivot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nearer	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	imperative	you not said here	yourself				close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					near property	tree rules

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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