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Test 3 · Speed: fast and slow

In a cartoon, a car brakes hard and the passengers are thrown backwards. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: car · What happens: brake, throw, be · To what, where: cartoon, passengers

This is test 3 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon, a car brakes hard and the passengers are thrown backwards.

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 brakes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brakes	nsubj
7	brakes	brake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 brakes	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 thrown	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 passengers	det
11	passengers	passenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 thrown	nsubj:pass
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thrown	aux:pass
13	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 hard	conj
14	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	13 thrown	advmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 brakes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brake	present	a car			a cartoon		hard property	tree rules
2	throw	present · passive		the passengers				backwards property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: What's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Nothing, braking throws you backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 throws	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	braking	braking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 throws	nsubj
4	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 throws	obj
6	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	4 throws	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	present	Nothing	you				backwards property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 2

They would stay perfectly still

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 stay	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stay	aux
3	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	3 stay	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	would	They				still	perfectly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They would lurch forward, because their bodies keep moving

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 lurch	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lurch	aux
3	lurch	lurch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	forward	forward	ADV	_	3 lurch	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 keep	punct
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 keep	mark
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 bodies	nmod:poss
8	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	nsubj
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lurch	conj
10	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lurch	would	They					forward property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	present	their bodies						tree rules
3	move	gerund	their bodies not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They would float upwards

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 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	3 float	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	would	They					upwards property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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