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Test 6 · ★ · Transport: from horses to planes

A paper plane stays up longer than a crumpled ball of the same paper. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: paper plane · What happens: stay up, crumple

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 99 «Transport: from horses to planes» 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 paper plane stays up longer than a crumpled ball of the same paper.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 plane	det
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plane	compound
3	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stays	nsubj
4	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stays	compound:prt
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 stays	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 ball	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ball	det
9	crumpled	crumple	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 ball	amod
10	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 longer	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 paper	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 paper	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 paper	amod
14	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ball	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stays	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay up	present	a paper plane					long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crumple	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

The plane has a tiny engine inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 plane	det
2	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 engine	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 engine	amod
6	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 has	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the plane	a tiny engine				inside property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Its wings push on the air as it moves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wings	nmod:poss
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 push	nsubj
3	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 air	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 air	det
6	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 push	obl
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 moves	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 moves	nsubj
9	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 push	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	present	Its wings					on the air	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on air=Theme
2	move	present	air						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The ball has more gravity than the plane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 gravity	amod
5	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	8 plane	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plane	det
8	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gravity	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the ball	more gravity				than the plane	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gravity=Patient

Option 4

The paper becomes lighter when folded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 paper	det
2	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 becomes	nsubj
3	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 becomes	xcomp
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 folded	advmod
6	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 becomes	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	present	the paper					light property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	fold	participle	the paper not said here						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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