Test 9 · ★★ · Riding a bike: why it stays up

What would happen if you leaned into a bend while going very slowly?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: happen, learn, go · To what, where: bend

This is test 9 · ★★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 leaned	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 leaned	nsubj
6	leaned	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 bend	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bend	det
9	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leaned	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 going	mark
11	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 leaned	advcl
12	very	very	ADV	_	13 slowly	advmod
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	11 going	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn a condition, not said to happen	past	you	a bend		vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	gerund	you not said here		slowly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

You would suddenly go a lot faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	would	You	a lot				fast, suddenly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

You would tip over inwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 tip	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 tip	aux
3	tip	tip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADV	_	3 tip	advmod
5	inwards	inwards	ADV	_	3 tip	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip over	would	You					inwards, over property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nothing at all would happen to you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 happen	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Nothing	nmod
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 happen	aux
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 you	case
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 happen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	would	Nothing		you				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

You would fall outwards away from the bend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fall	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	outwards	outwards	ADV	_	5 away	advmod
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 fall	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 bend	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bend	det
8	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	would	You			the bend		away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from bend=Initial_Location

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