Test 3 · ★★ · Sleep, exercise and growing up

Why would an astronaut back from six months in space find walking hard at first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: find, walk

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Sleep, exercise and growing up» of the world 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 back	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 back	aux
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 astronaut	det
4	astronaut	astronaut	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 back	nsubj
5	back	back	ADV	_	11 find	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 months	case
7	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 months	nummod
8	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 find	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 space	case
10	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 months	nmod
11	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 find	xcomp
13	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 walking	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 first	case
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 walking	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	present					month		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	walk	gerund						hard property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at first=Trajectory

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

They forgot how to walk in their brain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 forgot	nsubj
2	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 walk	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 walk	mark
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 forgot	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 brain	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 brain	nmod:poss
8	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forget	past	They						tree rules
2	not walk	to-infinitive	They not said here			their brain			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in brain=Trajectory

Option 2

Earth has less gravity than space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 gravity	amod
4	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 space	case
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gravity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Earth	less gravity				than space	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gravity=Patient

Option 3

Their legs got longer in space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 legs	nmod:poss
2	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 got	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 space	case
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Their legs			space		long property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Their muscles and bones weakened without weight to carry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 muscles	nmod:poss
2	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 weakened	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 bones	cc
4	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 muscles	conj
5	weakened	weaken	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	without	without	ADP	_	7 weight	case
7	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weakened	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 carry	mark
9	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 weakened	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	weaken	past	Their muscles and bones					without weight	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	carry	to-infinitive	Their muscles and bones not said here						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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