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Test 3 · ★ · Simple machines and how they help

A worker must get a heavy barrel onto a lorry. Which helps most without a crane?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: worker · What happens: get, help · To what, where: heavy barrel, lorry

This is test 3 · ★ 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 worker must get a heavy barrel onto a lorry.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 worker	det
2	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 get	aux
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 barrel	det
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 barrel	amod
7	barrel	barrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obj
8	onto	onto	ADP	_	10 lorry	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 lorry	det
10	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	must	a worker	a heavy barrel		a lorry			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer barrel=Stimulus

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: Which helps most without a crane?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 helps	advmod
4	without	without	ADP	_	6 crane	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 crane	det
6	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	obl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 helps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present						without a crane	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Lifting it with a much shorter plank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Lifting	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	7 plank	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 plank	det
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 shorter	advmod
6	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 plank	amod
7	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lifting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	gerund		it				with a shorter plank	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Rolling it up a long plank as a ramp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rolling	roll	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Rolling	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Rolling	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 plank	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 plank	amod
6	plank	plank	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rolling	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 ramp	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 ramp	det
9	ramp	ramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rolling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll up	gerund		it				as a ramp	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent it=Theme plank=Result

Option 3

Dragging it along the rough gravel first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Dragging	obj
3	along	along	ADP	_	6 gravel	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 gravel	det
5	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gravel	amod
6	gravel	gravel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dragging	obl
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Dragging	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	gerund		it				along the rough gravel; first property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Pushing it down from the top of the lorry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pushing	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Pushing	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 top	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 top	det
6	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pushing	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 lorry	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lorry	det
9	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 top	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push down	gerund		it		the top of the lorry			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme from top=Trajectory

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