Test 4 · ★★ · Pushes and pulls all around us
You drop a ball from 1 metre. Which height could it bounce back to?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You, height · What happens: drop, bounce back · To what, where: ball, 1 metre
This is test 4 · ★★ 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
Sentence 1: You drop a ball from 1 metre.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 drop | nsubj |
| 2 | drop | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ball | det |
| 4 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 metre | case |
| 6 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 metre | nummod |
| 7 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drop | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | You | a ball | 1 metre | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ball=Theme from metre=Destination |
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: Which height could it bounce back to?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 height | det |
| 2 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bounce | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bounce | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bounce | nsubj |
| 5 | bounce | bounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 bounce | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 back | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 bounce | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bounce back | could | which height | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
A bit less than 1 metre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bit | det |
| 2 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 less | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 metre | case |
| 5 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 metre | nummod |
| 6 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 less | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Exactly 2 metres, twice as high
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 metres | nummod |
| 3 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 high | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 metres | punct |
| 5 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 high | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 high | advmod |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
More than 1 metre, a bit higher
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 3 1 | advmod |
| 2 | than | than | ADP | _ | 1 More | fixed |
| 3 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 4 metre | nummod |
| 4 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 higher | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 metre | punct |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bit | det |
| 7 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 higher | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Exactly 1 metre, the same height
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 metre | advmod |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 metre | nummod |
| 3 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 height | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 height | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 height | amod |
| 7 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 metre | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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