Test 11 · ★ · Balance: the centre of gravity

Which stands most safely on a bus?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: stand · To what, where: bus

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 8 «Balance: the centre of gravity» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 stands	nsubj
2	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 safely	advmod
4	safely	safely	ADV	_	2 stands	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bus	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bus	det
7	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stands	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 stands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present				a bus		safely property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bus=Location

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

Feet together on tiptoe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	together	together	ADV	_	1 Feet	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 tiptoe	case
4	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Feet	nmod

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

Option 2

Standing tall with feet close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Standing	xcomp
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 feet	case
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Standing	obl
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Standing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund						with feet; tall property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Feet wide apart, knees a bit bent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 apart	nsubj
2	wide	wide	ADV	_	3 apart	advmod
3	apart	apart	ADV	_	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knees	punct
5	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 apart	obl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bit	det
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bent	obl:unmarked
8	bent	bend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 knees	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bend	participle	knees not said here	a bit					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

One foot, arms up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 foot	nummod
2	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 arms	punct
4	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 foot	conj
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 arms	advmod

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

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