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Test 6 · ★ · Simple machines and how they help

A ramp is made longer and less steep. What happens to the push needed?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: make, happen, need · To what, where: ramp, push

This is test 6 · ★ 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 ramp is made longer and less steep.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ramp	det
2	ramp	ramp	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 made	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 steep	cc
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 steep	advmod
8	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 made	conj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		a ramp				long property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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: What happens to the push needed?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 push	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 push	det
5	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 happens	obl
6	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 push	acl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present						to the push	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	participle		the push not said here					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Smaller, but over a longer path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 path	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 path	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 path	cc
4	over	over	ADP	_	7 path	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 path	det
6	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 path	amod
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

It becomes zero, with no push needed at all

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	zero	zero	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 becomes	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 push	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 push	case
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 push	det
7	push	push	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 becomes	parataxis
8	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 push	acl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 needed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It						vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	need	participle		no push not said here		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

It becomes bigger and the path is shorter

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 becomes	nsubj
2	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 becomes	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shorter	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 path	det
6	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shorter	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 shorter	cop
8	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 bigger	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	It					big property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	the path					short property	tree rules

Option 4

It stays exactly the same as before

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 stays	nsubj
2	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	5 same	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 stays	xcomp
6	as	as	ADP	_	7 before	case
7	before	before	ADV	_	5 same	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	present	It					same property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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