Test 8 · Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets

If there were no friction at all, what would happen when you tried to walk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: friction, you · What happens: be, happen, try, walk

This is test 8 of lesson 51 «Forces — pushes, pulls, friction and magnets» 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 were	mark
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 were	expl
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	advcl
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 friction	det
5	friction	friction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 were	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 friction	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 were	punct
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happen	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	aux
11	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 tried	advmod
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 tried	nsubj
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 happen	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 walk	mark
16	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	be a condition, not said to happen	past	no friction at all	there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	happen	would			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	past	you		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

You would float up into the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 float	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 float	aux
3	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 float	compound:prt
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 air	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 air	det
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 float	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float up	would	You			the air			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Your feet would slip and you could not move forward

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 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 slip	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 slip	aux
4	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 move	cc
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 move	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 move	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 move	advmod
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 slip	conj
10	forward	forward	ADV	_	9 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slip	would	Your feet						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	not move forward	could	you					forward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

You would walk much faster than before, without effort

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 walk	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	aux
3	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 faster	advmod
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 walk	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 before	case
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 faster	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 effort	punct
9	without	without	ADP	_	10 effort	case
10	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	would	You					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing would change at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 change	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 change	aux
3	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	would	Nothing			all			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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