Test 9 · Levers: lifting heavy things with a little push
Dad gets a short screwdriver and a long one to open a stuck tin. Which should he pick?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dad · What happens: get, open, pick · To what, where: short screwdriver, stuck tin
This is test 9 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: Dad gets a short screwdriver and a long one to open a stuck tin.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 screwdriver | det |
| 4 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 screwdriver | amod |
| 5 | screwdriver | screwdriver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gets | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 one | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 one | det |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 one | amod |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 screwdriver | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 open | mark |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 one | acl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tin | det |
| 13 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tin | amod |
| 14 | tin | tin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 open | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Dad | a short screwdriver and a long one | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer screwdriver=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | Dad not said here | a stuck tin | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tin=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: Which should he pick?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 pick | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 pick | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pick | nsubj |
| 4 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 pick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | should | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Neither, levers do not help with tins
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 6 help | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | levers | lever | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 help | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 help | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 help | advmod |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 tins | case |
| 8 | tins | tin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 help | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not help | present · do-support | levers | with tins; neither property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tin=Theme |
Option 2
Either, length does not matter
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 matter | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Either | punct |
| 3 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 matter | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 matter | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 matter | advmod |
| 6 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not matter | present · do-support | length | either property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3
The short one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The long one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 one | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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