Test 10 · Speed: fast and slow

What would happen if you ran straight on ice and tried to turn sharply?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, run, try, turn · To what, where: ice

This is test 10 of lesson 36 «Speed: fast and slow» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 ran	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	9 ice	advmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 ice	case
9	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tried	cc
11	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ran	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 turn	mark
13	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 tried	xcomp
14	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	13 turn	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run a condition, not said to happen	past	you	ice		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ice=Trajectory
3	try	past	you not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		sharply property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

You would stop at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	You						vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Your feet would slide, with no grip to push you round

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	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slide	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slide	aux
4	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 grip	punct
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 grip	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 grip	det
8	grip	grip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slide	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 push	mark
10	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slide	advcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 push	obj
12	round	round	ADV	_	10 push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	would	Your feet					with no grip	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	push	to-infinitive	Your feet not said here	you				round property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3

You would turn more easily than on grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 turn	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 turn	aux
3	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 easily	advmod
5	easily	easily	ADV	_	3 turn	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 grass	case
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 grass	case
8	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	would	You					than grass; easily property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

You would fly upwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fly	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fly	aux
3	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	3 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	would	You					upwards property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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