Test 3 · ★★ · Riding a bike: why it stays up
You want to go fast on a flat road. Which gear?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: You · What happens: want, go · To what, where: flat road
This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Riding a bike: why it stays up» 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 want to go fast on a flat road.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 go | mark |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 want | xcomp |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 8 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 road | amod |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | You | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | You not said here | a flat road | fast property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=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.
Sentence 2: Which gear?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 gear | det |
| 2 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 gear | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The lowest gear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gear | det |
| 2 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 gear | amod |
| 3 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A low gear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gear | det |
| 2 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gear | amod |
| 3 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
No gear at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 gear | det |
| 2 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 all | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 gear | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A high gear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 gear | det |
| 2 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gear | amod |
| 3 | gear | gear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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