Mova0.5 pre-release⌕

☰

home / corpora / questions / Physics / Rockets, record speeds and motion ever… / t12

Test 12 · ★★★ · Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere

You push your skateboard once on a smooth path and it rolls for ages; on gravel it stops at once. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: You, skateboard · What happens: push, roll, stop · To what, where: skateboard, smooth path, gravel

This is test 12 · ★★★ 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

Sentence 1: You push your skateboard once on a smooth path and it rolls for ages; on gravel it stops 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	2 push	nsubj
2	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 skateboard	nmod:poss
4	skateboard	skateboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 push	obj
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 push	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 path	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 path	det
8	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 path	amod
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 push	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rolls	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rolls	nsubj
12	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 push	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 ages	case
14	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 rolls	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 stops	punct
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 gravel	case
17	gravel	gravel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 stops	obl
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 stops	nsubj
19	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 push	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 once	case
21	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 stops	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 push	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	You	your skateboard		a smooth path		once property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent skateboard=Theme on path=Trajectory
2	roll	present	skateboard				for ages		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	skateboard			gravel			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Gravel is always uphill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gravel	gravel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 uphill	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 uphill	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 uphill	advmod
4	uphill	uphill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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

On gravel the small wheels catch on stones and friction grows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	2 gravel	case
2	gravel	gravel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wheels	det
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wheels	amod
5	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catch	nsubj
6	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 stones	case
8	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 catch	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 grows	cc
10	friction	friction	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grows	nsubj
11	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 catch	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	present	the small wheels			gravel		on stones	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	grow	present	friction						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The smooth path pushes the board along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 path	det
2	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 path	amod
3	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushes	nsubj
4	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 board	det
6	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushes	obj
7	along	along	ADV	_	4 pushes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	the smooth path	the board				along property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=Theme

Option 4

Gravel pulls the board down with magnets

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gravel	gravel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	nsubj
2	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 board	det
4	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	2 pulls	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 magnets	case
7	magnets	magnet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pulls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	present	Gravel	the board				with magnets	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent board=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/t12/