Test 7 · ★ · Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels
A toy car is pushed on smooth tiles and on thick carpet with the same push. Where does it roll further?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car · What happens: push, roll · To what, where: toy car, smooth tiles
This is test 7 · ★ 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 toy car is pushed on smooth tiles and on thick carpet with the same push.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 car | det |
| 2 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 car | compound |
| 3 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pushed | aux:pass |
| 5 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 tiles | case |
| 7 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tiles | amod |
| 8 | tiles | tile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pushed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carpet | cc |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 carpet | case |
| 11 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 carpet | amod |
| 12 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tiles | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 push | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 push | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 push | amod |
| 16 | push | push | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carpet | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pushed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | present · passive | a toy car | smooth tiles and thick carpet with the same push | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme on tile=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: Where does it roll further?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 roll | advmod |
| 2 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 roll | aux |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 roll | nsubj |
| 4 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 roll | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 roll | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | present · do-support | car | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
On the smooth tiles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 tiles | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tiles | det |
| 3 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tiles | amod |
| 4 | tiles | tile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
On the thick carpet
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 carpet | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 carpet | det |
| 3 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 carpet | amod |
| 4 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
It cannot roll on either
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 | 4 roll | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 roll | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 roll | advmod |
| 4 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 either | case |
| 6 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 roll | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not roll | can | It | either | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on either=Trajectory |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Exactly the same on both
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 3 same | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 same | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 both | case |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 same | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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