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Test 4 · Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push

In a cartoon, a mouse lifts an elephant with a tiny short plank. What would really be needed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mouse · What happens: lift, need · To what, where: elephant, cartoon

This is test 4 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: In a cartoon, a mouse lifts an elephant with a tiny short plank.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifts	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifts	nsubj
7	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 elephant	det
9	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifts	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 plank	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 plank	det
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plank	amod
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plank	amod
14	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifts	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lifts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	present	a mouse	a elephant		a cartoon		with a tiny short plank	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent elephant=Theme in cartoon=Destination

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 be needed?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 needed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 needed	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 needed	advmod
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 needed	aux:pass
5	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 needed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	would · passive							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A very long plank with the pivot near the elephant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 plank	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 long	advmod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plank	amod
4	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 pivot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pivot	det
7	pivot	pivot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plank	nmod
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 elephant	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 elephant	det
10	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pivot	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

A thicker plank with the pivot near the mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plank	det
2	thicker	thick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 plank	amod
3	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 pivot	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pivot	det
6	pivot	pivot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plank	nmod
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 mouse	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 mouse	det
9	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pivot	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Nothing more, any plank will do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Nothing	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 plank	det
5	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Nothing	acl:relcl

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

Option 4

A plank made of steel instead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plank	det
2	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 plank	acl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 steel	case
5	steel	steel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 made	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	participle		a plank not said here				of steel; instead property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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