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title: Which person is least likely to fall over on a rocking boat? — Reasoning about the body moving in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which person is least likely to fall over on a rocking boat? Test 9 · ★★★ 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 9 · ★★★ · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

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Which person is least likely to fall over on a rocking boat?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** person · **What happens:** be, fall over · **To what, where:** rocking boat

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This is test 9 · ★★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t9:1
# text = Which person is least likely to fall over on a rocking boat?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	least	least	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	rocking	rocking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which person |  |  |  |  | least, likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall over** | to-infinitive | which person *not said here* |  |  | a rocking boat |  | over *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on boat=Location |

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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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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One standing with feet apart and knees bent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t9:o1:1
# text = One standing with feet apart and knees bent
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | One |  |  |  |  | with feet; apart *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bend** | participle |  | knees *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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One standing with feet together and stiff legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t9:o2:1
# text = One standing with feet together and stiff legs
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund | One |  |  |  |  | with feet; together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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One standing on tiptoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t9:o3:1
# text = One standing on tiptoe
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | tiptoe |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tiptoe=Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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One standing on one leg

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:10-reasoning-about-the-moving-body:t9:o4:1
# text = One standing on one leg
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | gerund |  |  |  | one leg |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on leg=Location |

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**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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