Test 10 · ★ · Gravity

why don't people at the bottom of the world fall off

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: people · What happens: not fall off

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 6 «Gravity» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 fall	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 fall	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 fall	advmod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fall	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 bottom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottom	det
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 people	nmod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bottom	nmod
11	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 fall	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fall off	present · do-support	people at the bottom of the world						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

They really are upside down and need belts to hold them on

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	7 need	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	4 upside	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 upside	cop
4	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 They	nmod
5	down	down	ADV	_	7 need	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 need	cc
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	belts	belt	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 hold	mark
10	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 need	xcomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hold	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	10 hold	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		upside		tree rules
2	need	present	They	belts	down property	tree rules
3	hold on not said to happen	to-infinitive	belts not said here	belts = belt		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Gravity pulls everyone towards the Earth's centre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	nsubj
2	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	2 pulls	obj
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 centre	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Earth	det
6	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 centre	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Earth	case
8	centre	centre	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	Gravity	everyone		the Earth's centre			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent everyone=Theme towards centre=Destination

Option 3

The air pushes them against the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	nsubj
3	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pushes	obj
5	against	against	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	the air	them = they		the ground			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme against ground=Trajectory

Option 4

They hold on because the ground is sticky

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	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 hold	compound:prt
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 sticky	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sticky	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 sticky	cop
8	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hold	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold on	present	They						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the ground					sticky property	tree rules

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