Test 2 · ★ · Floating and sinking: the push of water

Which is true about a floating object?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, float

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 83 «Floating and sinking: the push of water» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 object	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 object	det
6	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 object	amod
7	object	object	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a floating object; true property	tree rules
2	float	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «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

It floats only because it contains air, which has no weight

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 floats	nsubj
2	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	2 floats	advmod
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 contains	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 contains	nsubj
6	contains	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 floats	advcl
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 contains	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 has	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 has	nsubj
10	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 air	acl:relcl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 weight	det
12	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	float	present	It		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	contain	present	it	air	vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot air=Theme
3	have	present	air	no weight	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It pushes aside no water at all

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 pushes	nsubj
2	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	aside	aside	ADV	_	2 pushes	advmod
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushes	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 pushes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	It	no water		all		aside property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent water=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The water it pushes aside weighs the same as it does

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weighs	nsubj
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pushes	nsubj
4	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 water	acl:relcl
5	aside	aside	ADV	_	4 pushes	advmod
6	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 same	det
8	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weighs	obj
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 does	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 does	nsubj
11	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 weighs	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push	present	water	the water not said here	aside property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	weigh	present	the water	the same		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme same=Value
3	do	present	water			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It has no weight while it floats

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 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 weight	det
4	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 floats	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 floats	nsubj
7	floats	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	It	no weight					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
2	float	present	weight						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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