Test 11 · ★ · Gravity

drop a hammer n a feather on the moon, which lands first

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, moon · What happens: drop, land · To what, where: hammer, moon

This is test 11 · ★ 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	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hammer	det
3	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drop	obj
4	n	n	ADV	_	6 feather	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 feather	det
6	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drop	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moon	det
9	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 drop	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lands	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lands	nsubj
12	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 moon	acl:relcl
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	12 lands	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	imperative	you not said here	a hammer		the moon		a feather obl	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme on moon=Destination
2	land	present	the moon					first property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

The hammer, coz heavy things always fall faster than light ones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hammer	det
2	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fall	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hammer	punct
4	coz	because	ADP	_	6 things	case
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 things	amod
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hammer	nmod
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 fall	advmod
8	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	8 fall	advmod
10	than	than	ADP	_	12 ones	case
11	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ones	compound
12	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	the hammer because heavy things					always, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Neither, nothing falls on the Moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	4 falls	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 falls	nsubj
4	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 Moon	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Moon	det
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 falls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	nothing			the Moon		neither property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on moon=Location

Option 3

The feather, it floats down faster without air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 feather	det
2	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floats	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 feather	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 floats	nsubj
5	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADV	_	5 floats	advmod
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 floats	advmod
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 air	case
9	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 floats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float down	present	the feather					without air; down, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both land together, there's no air to slow the feather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 land	det
2	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 's	nsubj
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 land	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 land	punct
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 's	expl
6	's	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 's	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 slow	mark
10	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 air	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 feather	det
12	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	does	present	both land			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	slow	to-infinitive	both land not said here	the feather					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feather=Patient

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