Test 7 · ★★ · Riding a bike: why it stays up
A small wheel and a big wheel roll into the same stone. Which gets over it more easily?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: get · To what, where: stone
This is test 7 · ★★ 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: A small wheel and a big wheel roll into the same stone.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wheel | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wheel | amod |
| 3 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 roll | cc |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 roll | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 roll | amod |
| 7 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roll | compound |
| 8 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wheel | conj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 stone | amod |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roll | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wheel | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Sentence 2: Which gets over it more easily?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 gets | nsubj |
| 2 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gets | obl |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 easily | advmod |
| 6 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 2 gets | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 gets | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | stone | easily property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The big wheel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wheel | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wheel | amod |
| 3 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The small wheel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wheel | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wheel | amod |
| 3 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Both the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 3 same | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 same | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Neither can get over it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 3 get | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 get | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | it | neither property | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination |
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