Test 9 · Friction: the grip that stops and helps
A hot sticky day, bare legs on a metal slide. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: happen
This is test 9 of lesson 6 «Friction: the grip that stops and helps» 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: A hot sticky day, bare legs on a metal slide.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 3 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 legs | punct |
| 6 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legs | amod |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 slide | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 slide | det |
| 10 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 slide | compound |
| 11 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 legs | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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 · ← Mova's choice
You slide twice as fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 slide | nsubj |
| 2 | slide | slide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 slide | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 fast | advmod |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 slide | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slide | present | You | fast, twice property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Nothing changes on hot days
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 changes | nsubj |
| 2 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 days | case |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 days | amod |
| 5 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 changes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Nothing | day | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Your skin grips and squeaks and you slow down
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 grips | nmod:poss |
| 2 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grips | nsubj |
| 3 | grips | grip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 slow | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 squeaks | cc |
| 5 | squeaks | squeak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 grips | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 slow | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 slow | nsubj |
| 8 | slow | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 slow | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grip | skin | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | slow down | present | Your grips and squeaks | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
The slide gets slippery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 slide | det |
| 2 | slide | slide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | slippery | slippery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gets | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the slide | slippery property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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