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title: Which stance is hardest to push over? — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: Which stance is hardest to push over? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 2 «Balance and falling well» 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 2 · ★ · Balance and falling well

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Which stance is hardest to push over?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** stance · **What happens:** be, push over

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 2 «Balance and falling well» 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/2-balance-and-falling-well/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t2:1
# text = Which stance is hardest to push over?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	stance	stance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	hardest	hard	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | which stance |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **push over** | to-infinitive | which stance *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Feet apart and knees bent

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t2:o1:1
# text = Feet apart and knees bent
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | participle · passive |  | Feet and knees |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Standing on one foot

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t2:o2:1
# text = Standing on one foot
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Standing on tiptoe

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t2:o3:1
# text = Standing on tiptoe
1	Standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	tiptoe	tiptoe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	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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Feet together and legs straight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t2:o4:1
# text = Feet together and legs straight
1	Feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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

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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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