Test 7 · ★★ · Pushes and pulls all around us
You try to open a door by pushing right next to the hinges. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: try, open, push, happen · To what, where: door
This is test 7 · ★★ 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 try to open a door by pushing right next to the hinges.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 try | nsubj |
| 2 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 open | mark |
| 4 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 try | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 open | obj |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 pushing | mark |
| 8 | pushing | push | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 open | advcl |
| 9 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 next | advmod |
| 10 | next | next | ADV | _ | 8 pushing | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 hinges | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hinges | det |
| 13 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 next | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 try | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | You | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | open not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | a door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | push | gerund | You not said here | next property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
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 happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
It swings open fastest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 swings | nsubj |
| 2 | swings | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 swings | xcomp |
| 4 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 swings | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | present | It | open property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
It opens the wrong way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opens | nsubj |
| 2 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opens | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | It | the wrong way | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location way=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
It is very hard to turn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hard | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hard | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 hard | advmod |
| 4 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 turn | mark |
| 6 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hard | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | hard property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | turn | to-infinitive | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
It comes off its hinges
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 comes | nsubj |
| 2 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 comes | compound:prt |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hinges | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hinges | hinge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 comes | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come off | present | It | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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