Test 4 · ★ · Gravity
Leo whirls a ball on a string around his head. What plays the part of the string for the Moon?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Leo · What happens: whirl, play · To what, where: ball, string, part
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Leo whirls a ball on a string around his head.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leo | Leo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 whirls | nsubj |
| 2 | whirls | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ball | det |
| 4 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whirls | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 string | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 string | det |
| 7 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whirls | obl |
| 8 | around | around | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whirls | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whirls | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whirl | present | Leo | a ball | a string | around Leo's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent ball=Theme on string=Source around head=Trajectory |
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 plays the part of the string for the Moon?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 plays | nsubj |
| 2 | plays | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plays | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 string | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 string | det |
| 7 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 Moon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Moon | det |
| 10 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 string | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 plays | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | present | the part of the string for the Moon | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The Earth's gravity
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gravity | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Earth | case |
| 4 | gravity | gravity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
The Earth's air
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Earth | det |
| 2 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 air | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Earth | case |
| 4 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
The Moon's speed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Moon | det |
| 2 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 speed | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Moon | case |
| 4 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Sun's light
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Sun | det |
| 2 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 light | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Sun | case |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | light | the Sun | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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