Test 1 · ★★★ · Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Ear…

«Alice fell so slow she grabbed some marmalade on the way, could I do that down a well?» What would really happen?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Alice, I · What happens: fall, grab, do down, happen · To what, where: marmalade, way, that

This is test 1 · ★★★ of lesson 41 «Alice's fall and her sizes: falling, the centre of the Earth, giants and tiny people» 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: «Alice fell so slow she grabbed some marmalade on the way, could I do that down a well?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct
2	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 slow	advmod
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fell	xcomp
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 grabbed	nsubj
7	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	parataxis
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 marmalade	det
9	marmalade	marmalade	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grabbed	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 way	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 grabbed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 grabbed	conj
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 do	obj
18	down	down	ADP	_	16 do	compound:prt
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 well	det
20	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	obj
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct
22	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall in a quote	past	Alice			slow property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab in a quote	past	Alice	some marmalade	the way		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marmalade=Theme
3	do down in a quote	could	I	that			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: What would really happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 happen	aux
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 happen	advmod
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

You would stop halfway down and float in the middle

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	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	5 down	advmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 stop	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 float	cc
7	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 middle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 middle	det
10	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	You					down property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	float	present	You not said here			the middle			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Trajectory

Option 2

You would fall slowly if you held your breath and kept your arms out wide

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 fall	advmod
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 held	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 held	nsubj
7	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	advcl
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 breath	nmod:poss
9	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 held	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kept	cc
11	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 held	conj
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 arms	nmod:poss
13	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 kept	obj
14	out	out	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod
15	wide	wide	ADV	_	11 kept	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fall	would	You		slowly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold a condition, not said to happen	past	you	your breath		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
3	keep out	past	you not said here	your arms	out, wide property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

You would fall slowly like Alice if the well was deep enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 fall	advmod
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 Alice	case
6	Alice	Alice	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 deep	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 well	det
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 deep	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 deep	cop
11	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fall	advcl
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 deep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	You					like Alice; slowly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	past	the well					deep, enough property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

You would fall faster every second, far too fast to grab anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 fall	xcomp
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 second	det
6	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fast	punct
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 fast	advmod
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 fall	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 grab	mark
12	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 fast	advcl
13	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	You				second	fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab	to-infinitive	You not said here	anything					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme

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