Test 5 · ★ · Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels

Which is a case where we want less friction?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: we · What happens: be, want · To what, where: case, less friction

This is test 5 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 case	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 case	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 case	det
4	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 want	advmod
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 want	nsubj
7	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 case	advcl
8	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 friction	amod
9	friction	friction	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 want	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 case	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a case					tree rules
2	want	present	we	less friction					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot friction=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

A door hinge that squeaks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hinge	det
2	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hinge	compound
3	hinge	hinge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 squeaks	nsubj
5	squeaks	squeak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hinge	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeak	present	a door hinge						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Brakes on a bicycle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 bicycle	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bicycle	det
4	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Brakes	nmod

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

Option 3

Tyres on a wet road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 road	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 road	det
4	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 road	amod
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tyres	nmod

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

Option 4

The soles of running shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 soles	det
2	soles	sole	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 shoes	case
4	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 shoes	amod
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 soles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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