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Test 6 · ★★ · Pushes and pulls all around us

In a film a horse pulls a heavy cart up an icy road with ease. What is wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse · What happens: pull, be · To what, where: heavy cart, film

This is test 6 · ★★ 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: In a film a horse pulls a heavy cart up an icy road with ease.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 film	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 film	det
3	film	film	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	nsubj
6	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cart	det
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cart	amod
9	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	13 road	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 road	det
12	icy	icy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 road	amod
13	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 ease	case
15	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pulls	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 pulls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	a horse	a heavy cart		a film		up a icy road; with ease	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=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 is wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						wrong property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

The cart would be lighter on ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cart	det
2	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighter	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 lighter	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 lighter	cop
5	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 ice	case
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	the cart			ice		light property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing, horses pull best on ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 pull	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pull	nsubj
4	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 pull	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 ice	case
7	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	horses					on ice; Nothing vocative; well property	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on ice=Theme

Option 3

Horses do not push on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 push	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 push	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 push	advmod
4	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 push	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not push	present · do-support	Horses					on the ground	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on ground=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

On ice the horse's hooves would slip and it would struggle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	2 ice	case
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 slip	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hooves	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 horse	case
6	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 slip	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 slip	aux
8	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 struggle	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 struggle	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 struggle	aux
12	struggle	struggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 slip	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	would	the horse's hooves			ice			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	struggle	would	horse						vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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