Test 7 · ★★★ · Olympiad: forces, floating and machines ★★★
Kai reckons a heavy kid on a swing goes back and forth faster than a light kid on the same swing. Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kai, swing · What happens: reckon, go back · To what, where: heavy kid
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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: Kai reckons a heavy kid on a swing goes back and forth faster than a light kid on the same swing.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reckons | nsubj |
| 2 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kid | amod |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reckons | obj |
| 6 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 goes | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 swing | det |
| 8 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 goes | nsubj |
| 9 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 reckons | advcl |
| 10 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 goes | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 forth | cc |
| 12 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 10 back | conj |
| 13 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 goes | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 kid | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 kid | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kid | compound |
| 17 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 faster | obl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 swing | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 swing | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 swing | amod |
| 21 | swing | swing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 kid | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | Kai | a heavy kid | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent kid=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | go back | present | a swing | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient |
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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, but only on long swings
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 swings | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 swings | cc |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 swings | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 swings | case |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 swings | amod |
| 7 | swings | swing | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
No, the heavy kid is slower
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 slower | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 kid | amod |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slower | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 slower | cop |
| 7 | slower | slow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the heavy kid | slow property | tree rules |
Option 3
Yes, heavy kids swing faster
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 swing | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 swing | punct |
| 3 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 kids | amod |
| 4 | kids | kid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swing | nsubj |
| 5 | swing | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 swing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | present | heavy kids | fast property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, they take the same time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 take | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | present | they | time | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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