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Test 5 · ★ · Gravity

A ball is thrown sideways. Why does it curve down to the ground?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: ball · What happens: throw, curve down · To what, where: ball

This is test 5 · ★ 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: A ball is thrown sideways.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thrown	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thrown	aux:pass
4	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	4 thrown	advmod
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 thrown	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	present · passive		a ball				sideways property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

Sentence 2: Why does it curve down to the ground?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 curve	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 curve	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 curve	nsubj
4	curve	curve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 curve	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 curve	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 curve	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	curve down	present · do-support	ball					to the ground; down property	vn knead-26.5 «NP.material V PP.product»: agent=Material

The options

Option 1

The air turns it downwards

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 turns	nsubj
3	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 turns	obj
5	downwards	downwards	ADV	_	3 turns	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the air	it				downwards property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

It gets tired of moving

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 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gets	xcomp
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 moving	mark
5	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tired	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	It					tired property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	move	gerund							vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Gravity pulls it down while it moves sideways

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulls	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	2 pulls	compound:prt
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 moves	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 moves	nsubj
7	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 pulls	advcl
8	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	7 moves	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	present	Gravity	it					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	move	present	Gravity					sideways property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

The ground pulls it down with a kind of magnetism

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ground	det
2	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	nsubj
3	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pulls	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	3 pulls	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 kind	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kind	det
8	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulls	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 magnetism	case
10	magnetism	magnetism	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kind	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull down	present	the ground	it				with a kind of magnetism	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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