Test 11 · ★★★ · Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere

Which needs the biggest push back to manage: a garden hose, a fire hose or a drinking straw?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: biggest push · What happens: need, manage · To what, where: biggest push

This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 38 «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 needs	nsubj
2	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 push	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 push	amod
5	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	obj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 push	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 manage	mark
8	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 push	xcomp
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 hose	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 hose	det
11	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hose	compound
12	hose	hose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needs	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hose	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 hose	det
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hose	compound
16	hose	hose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hose	conj
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 straw	cc
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 straw	det
19	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 straw	compound
20	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hose	conj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 needs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present		the biggest push					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot push=Theme
2	manage	to-infinitive	the biggest push not said here						vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

All exactly the same

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 same	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 same	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 All	amod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A fire hose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hose	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hose	compound
3	hose	hose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A garden hose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hose	det
2	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hose	compound
3	hose	hose	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A drinking straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 straw	det
2	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 straw	compound
3	straw	straw	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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