Test 10 · ★ · Simple machines and how they help

door handle far from the hinge, why tho

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

This is test 10 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handle	compound
2	handle	handle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 handle	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hinge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hinge	det
6	hinge	hinge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 far	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 handle	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 handle	advmod
9	tho	tho	ADV	_	2 handle	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	handle	present						far, tho property	vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

It looks nicer on the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looks	nsubj
2	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 looks	xcomp
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	It					on the door; nice property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on door=Theme

Option 2

It stops the door from closing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 door	det
4	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 closing	case
6	closing	closing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	It	the door		closing			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer door=Beneficiary from closing=Eventuality

Option 3

The hinge would break if the handle were any nearer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hinge	det
2	hinge	hinge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 break	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 break	aux
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 were	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 handle	det
7	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 were	nsubj
8	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 break	advcl
9	any	any	ADV	_	10 nearer	advmod
10	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 break	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	would	the hinge						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	be a condition, not said to happen	past	the handle						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Pushing further from the pivot needs less force

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 needs	csubj
2	further	further	ADV	_	1 Pushing	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 pivot	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pivot	det
5	pivot	pivot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pushing	obl
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 force	amod
8	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund						from the pivot; further property	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from pivot=Co-Patient
2	need	present	Pushing	less force					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot force=Theme

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