Test 4 · ★ · Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip

Why would a gymnast with sweaty hands be in danger on the bars?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: gymnast · What happens: be · To what, where: danger

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 danger	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 danger	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gymnast	det
4	gymnast	gymnast	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 danger	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hands	amod
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gymnast	nmod
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 danger	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 danger	case
10	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 bars	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bars	det
13	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 danger	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 danger	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	a gymnast with sweaty hands			danger		on the bars	tree rules

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 · ← Mova's choice

Sweat freezes onto the cold metal bars at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 freezes	nsubj
2	freezes	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	onto	onto	ADP	_	7 bars	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bars	det
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bars	amod
6	metal	metal	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bars	compound
7	bars	bar	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 freezes	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 freezes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	present	Sweat			the cold metal bars			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Sweat makes the bar bend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bend	det
4	bar	bar	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bend	compound
5	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Sweat	the bar bend					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bend=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sweaty skin is slippery and she could slip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweaty	sweaty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 skin	amod
2	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slippery	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slippery	cop
4	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 slip	cc
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 slip	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 slip	aux
8	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slippery	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Sweaty skin					slippery property	tree rules
2	slip	could	she						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Sweat makes her too heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	obj
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	Sweat	her = she				heavy property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset she=Product

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