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description: An egg dropped onto a pillow does not break, but one dropped onto a stone floor does. Why? Test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's cho
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# Test 10 · ★★★ · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

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An egg dropped onto a pillow does not break, but one dropped onto a stone floor does. Why?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** egg, pillow, one, stone floor · **What happens:** drop, not break, do

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This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* An egg dropped onto a pillow does not break, but one dropped onto a stone floor does.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t10:1
# text = An egg dropped onto a pillow does not break, but one dropped onto a stone floor does.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nsubj	_	_
13	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | a egg |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **break** | present · do-support | a pillow |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **drop** | past | one |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | present | a stone floor |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* Why?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t10:2
# text = Why?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The pillow makes the egg's shell harder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t10:o1:1
# text = The pillow makes the egg's shell harder
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the pillow | the egg's shell |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shell=Product |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The egg falls more slowly onto pillows

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t10:o2:1
# text = The egg falls more slowly onto pillows
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	onto	onto	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	pillows	pillow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | the egg |  |  | pillows |  | slowly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme onto pillow=Initial\_Location |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The pillow lets it stop more slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t10:o3:1
# text = The pillow lets it stop more slowly
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | the pillow | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The stone floor pulls the egg down faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t10:o4:1
# text = The stone floor pulls the egg down faster
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	egg	egg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull down** | present | the stone floor | the egg |  |  |  | down, fast *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme |

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