Test 8 · ★ · Balance: the centre of gravity
Your bag of shopping is heavy on the left. Which way do you lean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bag, way · What happens: be, lean · To what, where: left
This is test 8 · ★ 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: Your bag of shopping is heavy on the left.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 bag | nmod:poss |
| 2 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heavy | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 shopping | case |
| 4 | shopping | shopping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bag | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heavy | cop |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 left | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 left | det |
| 9 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heavy | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heavy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Your bag of shopping | the left | heavy property | 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.
Sentence 2: Which way do you lean?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 way | det |
| 2 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lean | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lean | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lean | nsubj |
| 5 | lean | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 lean | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean | present · do-support | which way | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
You do not need to lean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 need | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 need | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 need | advmod |
| 4 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 lean | mark |
| 6 | lean | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 need | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present · do-support | You | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lean not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
To the right
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 right | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 right | det |
| 3 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Forwards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forwards | forward | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
To the left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 left | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 left | det |
| 3 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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