Test 2 · ★★★ · Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★

Jaz rigs up pulleys so that 4 lengths of rope hold the box. What changes for him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Jaz, 4 lengths · What happens: rig up, hold, change · To what, where: pulleys, box

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 42 «Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★» 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: Jaz rigs up pulleys so that 4 lengths of rope hold the box.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jaz	Jaz	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 rigs	nsubj
2	rigs	rig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 rigs	compound:prt
4	pulleys	pulley	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rigs	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 hold	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 hold	mark
7	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	8 lengths	nummod
8	lengths	length	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hold	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 rope	case
10	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lengths	nmod
11	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 rigs	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 box	det
13	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hold	obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rigs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rig up	present	Jaz	pulleys					tree rules
2	hold	present	4 lengths of rope	the box					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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 changes for him?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 changes	nsubj
2	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 changes	obl
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 changes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	present						for Jaz	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He no longer needs to pull at all, it lifts itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needs	nsubj
2	no	no	ADV	_	3 longer	advmod
3	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 needs	advmod
4	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pull	mark
6	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 needs	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 pull	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lifts	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lifts	nsubj
11	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 needs	conj
12	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 lifts	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	need	present	He		long property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	pull not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here		at all	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at all=Theme
3	lift	present	it	itself = it		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme

Option 2

He pulls four times as hard but only a quarter as far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulls	nsubj
2	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 times	nummod
4	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pulls	obl:unmarked
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 pulls	advmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 quarter	cc
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 quarter	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 quarter	det
10	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	conj
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 pulls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	He				time	far, hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He pulls just as hard, but the rope is shorter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulls	nsubj
2	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 hard	advmod
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 pulls	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 pulls	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 shorter	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rope	det
9	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shorter	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shorter	cop
11	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 pulls	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	He					hard property	vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the rope					short property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He pulls a quarter as hard but four times as far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulls	nsubj
2	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 quarter	det
4	quarter	quarter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	obj
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 pulls	advmod
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 times	cc
8	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 times	nummod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 pulls	obl:unmarked
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 pulls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	He	a quarter			time	far, hard property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarter=Theme

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