Test 8 · ★★ · Pushes and pulls all around us

Why do rowers pull their oars back through the water?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: rowers · What happens: pull back · To what, where: oars, water

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 pull	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 pull	aux
3	rowers	rower	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pull	nsubj
4	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 oars	nmod:poss
6	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pull	obj
7	back	back	ADV	_	4 pull	advmod
8	through	through	ADP	_	10 water	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 water	det
10	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pull	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull back	present · do-support	rowers	rowers's oars		the water			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oar=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

To splash the other rowers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 splash	mark
2	splash	splash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rowers	det
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rowers	amod
5	rowers	rower	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 splash	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash	to-infinitive		the other rowers					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rower=Theme

Option 2

To pull the water towards the boat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 pull	mark
2	pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pull	obj
5	towards	towards	ADP	_	7 boat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boat	det
7	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	to-infinitive		the water		the boat			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme towards boat=Destination

Option 3

To slow the boat down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 slow	mark
2	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boat	det
4	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 slow	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	2 slow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	to-infinitive		the boat				down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent boat=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To push the water back so it pushes the boat on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 push	mark
2	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pushes	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 push	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	2 push	advmod
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 pushes	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pushes	nsubj
8	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boat	det
10	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pushes	obj
11	on	on	ADP	_	8 pushes	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push back	to-infinitive	water not said here	the water					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	push on	present	water	the boat					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme

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