Test 13 · ★ · Gravity

Mia reckons heavy stuff always falls faster than light stuff. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: reckon, fall · To what, where: heavy stuff

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Mia	Mia	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stuff	amod
4	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	obj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 falls	advmod
6	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 reckons	advcl
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 falls	advmod
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 stuff	case
9	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 stuff	amod
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 faster	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	2 reckons	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Mia	heavy stuff					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent stuff=Attribute
2	fall	present	Mia not said here					always, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, without air they fall at the same speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 fall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fall	punct
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 air	case
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fall	nsubj
6	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	10 speed	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 speed	det
9	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 speed	amod
10	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	present	they			the same speed		without air	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at speed=Location

Option 2

Yes, twice as heavy falls twice as fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 falls	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 falls	advmod
4	as	as	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 falls	amod
6	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 falls	advmod
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 twice	conj

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

Option 3

Yes, that's why a feather falls slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 why	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 why	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 why	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 why	cop
5	why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 feather	det
7	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 falls	nsubj
8	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 why	ccomp
9	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	8 falls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					why property	tree rules
2	fall	present	a feather					slowly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

No, light things always fall faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 light	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fall	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 fall	advmod
6	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 fall	xcomp

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

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