Test 1 · ★ · Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip

What would a day with no friction at all be like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 7 «Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 What	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 would	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 friction	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 friction	det
7	friction	friction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 day	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 friction	nmod
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 like	cop
11	like	like	ADP	_	9 all	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Nothing would ever move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 move	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 move	aux
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 move	advmod
4	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	would	Nothing				ever		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

You could not walk, hold a pencil or tie your shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 walk	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 walk	advmod
4	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hold	punct
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 walk	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pencil	det
8	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hold	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 tie	cc
10	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 walk	conj
11	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shoes	nmod:poss
12	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tie	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not walk	could	You		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hold	infinitive	You not said here	a pencil	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pencil=Theme
3	tie	infinitive	You not said here	your shoes	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoe=Patient

Option 3

Things would only fall upwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	4 fall	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	Things					upwards property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Everything would be easier to hold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 easier	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 easier	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 easier	cop
4	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 hold	mark
6	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 easier	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	Everything					easy property	tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive	Everything not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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