Test 8 · ★★ · Riding a bike: why it stays up

bro my bike fell over when i stopped at the lights. why

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bike, i · What happens: fall over, stop · To what, where: lights

This is test 8 · ★★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	vocative
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 bike	nmod:poss
3	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 stopped	advmod
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 stopped	nsubj
8	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 lights	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lights	det
11	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 stopped	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall over	past	my bike					bro vocative; over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	past	i			the lights			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at light=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Bikes get heavier as soon as they stop moving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 get	nsubj
2	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 get	xcomp
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 soon	advmod
5	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 get	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 stop	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 stop	nsubj
8	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 soon	advcl
9	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	present	Bikes	heavy, soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	stop	present	Bikes = bike		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	move	gerund	Bikes = bike not said here		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Your tyres lost all of their air at once when you stopped

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 tyres	nmod:poss
2	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lost	nsubj
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 stopped	advcl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 lost	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 air	nmod:poss
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 all	nmod
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 all	nmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 stopped	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	participle	Your tyres	all					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
2	stop	past	you						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

The traffic lights pulled it over with magnetism

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lights	det
2	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lights	compound
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pulled	nsubj
4	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pulled	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	4 pulled	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 magnetism	case
8	magnetism	magnetism	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull over	past	the traffic lights	it				with magnetism	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

With no speed you cannot steer to balance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	With	with	ADP	_	3 speed	case
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 speed	det
3	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 steer	obl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 steer	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 steer	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 steer	advmod
7	steer	steer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 balance	mark
9	balance	balance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 steer	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not steer	can	you					with no speed	tree rules
2	balance	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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