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title: What would happen if you jumped off a step and landed with locked kn… — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you jumped off a step and landed with locked knees? Test 4 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 4 · ★ · Balance and falling well

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What would happen if you jumped off a step and landed with locked knees?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, jump off, land, lock · **To what, where:** step

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This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t4:1
# text = What would happen if you jumped off a step and landed with locked knees?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **jump off** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you | a step |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **land** | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with locked knees | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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Nothing at all would be different from bent knees

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t4:o1:1
# text = Nothing at all would be different from bent knees
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	bent	bent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	knees	knee	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | Nothing |  |  | bent knees |  | different *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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You would land more softly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t4:o2:1
# text = You would land more softly
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	land	land	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | would | You |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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

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The jolt would go hard through your legs

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t4:o3:1
# text = The jolt would go hard through your legs
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jolt	jolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | the jolt |  |  | your legs |  | hard *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through leg=Initial\_Location |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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You would bounce back up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:2-balance-and-falling-well:t4:o4:1
# text = You would bounce back up
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	bounce	bounce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bounce back** | would | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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