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Test 6 · ★★ · Pulleys, gears and big machines

Three gears are in a row. The first turns clockwise. Which way does the third turn?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Three gears, first, way · What happens: be, turn, do · To what, where: row, third turn

This is test 6 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Pulleys, gears and big machines» 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: Three gears are in a row.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 gears	nummod
2	gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 row	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 row	cop
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 row	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 row	det
6	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 row	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Three gears			a row			tree rules

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: The first turns clockwise.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 first	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	clockwise	clockwise	ADV	_	3 turns	advmod
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 turns	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the first					clockwise property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Sentence 3: Which way does the third turn?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	nsubj
3	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 turn	det
5	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 turn	amod
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 does	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	which way	the third turn					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Clockwise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Clockwise	clockwise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It turns both ways at once

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 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 ways	det
4	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turns	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 once	case
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	It	both ways					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme way=Result

Option 3

It does not turn

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	4 turn	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 turn	advmod
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not turn	present · do-support	It						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Anticlockwise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Anticlockwise	anticlockwise	ADV	_	root	root

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

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