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title: Why do gymnasts land on thick mats and not on the hard floor? — Reasoning about the body moving in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do gymnasts land on thick mats and not on the hard floor? Test 3 · ★★★ 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 choice was right.
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

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Why do gymnasts land on thick mats and not on the hard floor?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** gymnasts · **What happens:** land · **To what, where:** thick mats

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This is test 3 · ★★★ 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/#t3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t3:1
# text = Why do gymnasts land on thick mats and not on the hard floor?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	gymnasts	gymnast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | present · do-support | gymnasts |  |  | thick mats and the hard floor |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on mat=Destination |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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The floor would pull them down harder

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t3:o1:1
# text = The floor would pull them down harder
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	harder	hard	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** | would | the floor | them *= they* |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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The mat lets them stop more slowly and gently

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t3:o2:1
# text = The mat lets them stop more slowly and gently
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mat	mat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|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	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | present | the mat | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Mats make gymnasts lighter

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t3:o3:1
# text = Mats make gymnasts lighter
1	Mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	gymnasts	gymnast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Mats | gymnasts |  |  |  | light *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset gymnast=Product |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Mats make them jump higher next time

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t3:o4:1
# text = Mats make them jump higher next time
1	Mats	mat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	jump	jump	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	higher	high	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | Mats | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **jump** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  | time | high *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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