Test 9 · ★ · Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels
You hang a heavier bag on a forcemeter. What happens?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: You · What happens: hang, happen · To what, where: heavier bag, forcemeter
This is test 9 · ★ 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: You hang a heavier bag on a forcemeter.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 hang | nsubj |
| 2 | hang | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bag | det |
| 4 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 bag | amod |
| 5 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hang | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 forcemeter | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 forcemeter | det |
| 8 | forcemeter | forcemeter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hang | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hang | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | You | a heavier bag | a forcemeter | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on forcemeter=Destination |
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: What happens?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The spring stretches further
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spring | det |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretches | nsubj |
| 3 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 stretches | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | present | the spring | far property | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 2
The spring gets shorter and squashes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spring | det |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gets | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 gets | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 squashes | cc |
| 6 | squashes | squash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 gets | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | the spring | short property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | squash | present | the spring not said here | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
The spring stays exactly the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spring | det |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stays | nsubj |
| 3 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 6 same | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 same | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stays | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | the spring | same property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
The spring stretches less than before
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 spring | det |
| 2 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretches | nsubj |
| 3 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 stretches | obj |
| 5 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 before | case |
| 6 | before | before | ADV | _ | 4 less | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | present | the spring | less | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent less=Patient |
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