Test 11 · ★★ · Pushes and pulls all around us

How is a bowling alley like a row of dominoes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bowling alley · What happens: be, bowl

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 5 «Pushes and pulls all around us» 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 How	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 alley	det
4	bowling	bowl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 alley	amod
5	alley	alley	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 How	nsubj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 row	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 row	det
8	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alley	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 dominoes	case
10	dominoes	domino	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 row	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 How	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a bowling alley like a row of dominoes					how property	tree rules
2	bowl	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Each thing passes its push on to the next

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 thing	det
2	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passes	nsubj
3	passes	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 push	nmod:poss
5	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passes	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 next	case
7	to	to	ADP	_	6 on	fixed
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 next	det
9	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 passes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	present	each thing	thing's push		the next			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent push=Theme on next=Destination
2	push		thing						nom push «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Each thing pulls the one behind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 thing	det
2	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	nsubj
3	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	obj
6	behind	behind	ADV	_	3 pulls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	each thing	the one				behind property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 3

Each thing gets heavier and heavier as it falls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 thing	det
2	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gets	nsubj
3	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 gets	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 heavier	cc
6	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 heavier	conj
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 falls	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 falls	nsubj
9	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gets	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	each thing					heavy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	fall	present	thing						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Each thing stays perfectly still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 thing	det
2	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stays	nsubj
3	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	_	3 stays	advmod
5	still	still	ADV	_	3 stays	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	each thing				still	perfectly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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.

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