Test 11 · ★ · Wheels, axles, ramps and screws

Why do the riders at the edge of a roundabout scream more?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: riders · What happens: scream · To what, where: more

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 34 «Wheels, axles, ramps and screws» 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	11 scream	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 scream	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 riders	det
4	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 scream	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 riders	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 roundabout	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 roundabout	det
10	roundabout	roundabout	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 edge	nmod
11	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 scream	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 scream	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scream speech: express	present · do-support	the riders at the edge of a roundabout	more					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Topic

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

They are heavier than the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heavier	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heavier	cop
3	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 others	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 others	det
6	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 heavier	obl

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They go round faster than the riders in the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	4 faster	advmod
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 go	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 riders	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 riders	det
7	riders	rider	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 faster	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go round	present	They			the middle		fast property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

Option 3

The edge of the roundabout spins the other way to the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 edge	det
2	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spins	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 roundabout	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 roundabout	det
5	roundabout	roundabout	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 edge	nmod
6	spins	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 way	amod
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spins	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 middle	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 middle	det
12	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spins	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present	the edge of the roundabout	the other way		the middle			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme to middle=Trajectory

Option 4

The middle is warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 middle	det
2	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 warmer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 warmer	cop
4	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the middle					warm property	tree rules

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