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Test 1 · ★ · Simple machines and how they help

A girl and her much heavier father sit on a see-saw. How can they balance?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl · What happens: sit, balance · To what, where: see saw

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 52 «Simple machines and how they help» 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

Sentence 1: A girl and her much heavier father sit on a see-saw.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 father	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 heavier	advmod
6	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 father	amod
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 girl	conj
8	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 saw	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 saw	det
11	see	see	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
13	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sit	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	infinitive	a girl and her heavier father			a see saw			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on saw=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.

Sentence 2: How can they balance?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 balance	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 balance	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 balance	nsubj
4	balance	balance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 balance	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	balance	can	girl						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

They can never balance

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	4 balance	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 balance	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 balance	advmod
4	balance	balance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not balance	can	They						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The father sits right at the very end of the board

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	right	right	ADV	_	3 sits	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 end	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 end	advmod
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 board	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 board	det
11	board	board	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 end	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the father				at the end of the board	right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at end=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The father sits closer to the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sits	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the father					to the middle; close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The girl sits closer to the middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sits	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 middle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 middle	det
7	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the girl					to the middle; close property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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