Test 6 · ★ · Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip
You must move a heavy fridge across a room. Which helps most?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: move, help · To what, where: heavy fridge, room
This is test 6 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: You must move a heavy fridge across a room.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 move | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 move | aux |
| 3 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fridge | det |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fridge | amod |
| 6 | fridge | fridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 move | obj |
| 7 | across | across | ADP | _ | 9 room | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 room | det |
| 9 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 move | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 move | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | must | You | a heavy fridge | a room | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fridge=Theme across room=Trajectory |
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: Which helps most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 2 helps | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Push it hard from the top corner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Push | push | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Push | obj |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Push | advmod |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 corner | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 corner | det |
| 6 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 corner | amod |
| 7 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Push | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | imperative | you not said here | it | the top corner | hard property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from corner=Trajectory |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Put it on a trolley with wheels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 trolley | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trolley | det |
| 5 | trolley | trolley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 wheels | case |
| 7 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | it | a trolley | with wheels | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on trolley=Destination |
Option 3
Push it much faster at the start
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Push | push | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Push | obj |
| 3 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 faster | advmod |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Push | advmod |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 start | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 start | det |
| 7 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Push | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | imperative | you not said here | it | the start | fast property | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme at start=Trajectory |
Option 4
Put a thick heavy rug on top of it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rug | det |
| 3 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rug | amod |
| 4 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rug | amod |
| 5 | rug | rug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 top | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | a thick heavy rug | top of top | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent rug=Theme on top=Destination |
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