Test 2 · ★ · Simple machines and how they help

Which is true about every simple machine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 machine	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	7 machine	det
6	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 machine	amod
7	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about every simple machine; true property	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

It may save force, but you must move further

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	3 save	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 save	aux
3	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 save	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 move	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 move	cc
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 move	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 move	aux
9	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 save	conj
10	further	further	ADV	_	9 move	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	may	It	force					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Theme
2	move	must	you					further property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It always produces more work than you put into it

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	3 produces	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 produces	advmod
3	produces	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 work	amod
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 produces	obj
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 put	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 put	nsubj
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 produces	advcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 it	case
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	produce	present	It	more work				always property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Result
2	put	present	you			work			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It works without anyone pushing or pulling

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 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 anyone	case
4	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 works	obl
5	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 anyone	acl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 pulling	cc
7	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 pushing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	work	present	It	without anyone	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	push	gerund			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	pull	gerund			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It makes loads lose their weight

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 weight	nmod:poss
6	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	loads					tree rules
2	lose	infinitive	loads not said here	loads's weight					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Eventuality

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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