Test 1 · ★ · Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels
A car moves along a straight road at a steady speed. Which is true?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car · What happens: move, be · To what, where: steady speed
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 85 «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» 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 car moves along a straight road at a steady speed.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | nsubj |
| 3 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 speed | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 speed | det |
| 10 | steady | steady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 speed | amod |
| 11 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 moves | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 moves | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | a car | a steady speed | along a straight road | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme along road=Source at speed=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: Which is true?
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 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
The forward force is much bigger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 force | det |
| 2 | forward | forward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 force | amod |
| 3 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bigger | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bigger | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 bigger | advmod |
| 6 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the forward force | big property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The forward and backward forces are balanced
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forces | det |
| 2 | forward | forward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 forces | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 backward | cc |
| 4 | backward | backward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 forward | conj |
| 5 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 balanced | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 balanced | aux:pass |
| 7 | balanced | balance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | balance | present · passive | the forward forces | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 3
There are no forces on the car at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 forces | det |
| 4 | forces | force | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 car | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 are | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 are | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | no forces | the car; there | at all | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on car=Location |
Option 4
The backward force is much bigger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 force | det |
| 2 | backward | backward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 force | amod |
| 3 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bigger | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bigger | cop |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 6 bigger | advmod |
| 6 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the backward force | big property | tree rules |
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