Test 2 · ★ · Balance: the centre of gravity
Try it: back against the wall, touch your toes. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: try, touch, happen · To what, where: it, toes
This is test 2 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Try it: back against the wall, touch your toes.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Try | obj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 back | punct |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 1 Try | advmod |
| 5 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wall | det |
| 7 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 back | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 touch | punct |
| 9 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Try | conj |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 toes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 touch | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Try | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | imperative | you not said here | it | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | touch | infinitive | you not said here | your toes | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme toe=Co-Theme |
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: 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
You touch them easily
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 touch | nsubj |
| 2 | touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 touch | obj |
| 4 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 2 touch | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | present | You | them = they | easily property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-Theme |
Option 2
You fall backwards through the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 fall | nsubj |
| 2 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 2 fall | advmod |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 wall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fall | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | present | You | the wall | backwards property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through wall=Location |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
You tip forward or give up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 tip | nsubj |
| 2 | tip | tip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 2 tip | advmod |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 give | cc |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tip | conj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 give | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tip | present | You | forward property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | give up | infinitive | You not said here | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
You float up a little
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 float | nsubj |
| 2 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 float | compound:prt |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 little | det |
| 5 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 float | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float up | present | You | a little | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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