Test 5 · ★★ · Riding a bike: why it stays up
Which bike would be best for a muddy forest track?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bike · What happens: be
This is test 5 · ★★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 bike | det |
| 2 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 track | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 track | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 track | cop |
| 5 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 10 track | advmod |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 track | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 track | det |
| 8 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 track | amod |
| 9 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 track | compound |
| 10 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 track | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | which bike | for a muddy forest track; well 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
A bike with no tyres, just the metal rims
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bike | det |
| 2 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 tyres | case |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 tyres | det |
| 5 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bike | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rims | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 rims | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rims | det |
| 9 | metal | metal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rims | compound |
| 10 | rims | rim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tyres | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A bike with flat tyres that bump on the rim
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bike | det |
| 2 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 tyres | case |
| 4 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tyres | amod |
| 5 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bike | nmod |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 bump | nsubj |
| 7 | bump | bump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tyres | acl:relcl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 rim | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rim | det |
| 10 | rim | rim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bump | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bump | present | flat tyres | the rim | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
A road bike with thin, smooth racing tyres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bike | det |
| 2 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bike | compound |
| 3 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tyres | case |
| 5 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tyres | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thin | punct |
| 7 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tyres | amod |
| 8 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tyres | compound |
| 9 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bike | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A mountain bike with wide knobbly tyres
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bike | det |
| 2 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bike | compound |
| 3 | bike | bike | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 tyres | case |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tyres | amod |
| 6 | knobbly | knobbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tyres | amod |
| 7 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bike | nmod |
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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