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title: Why are flips on a trampoline so risky? — Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun an… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why are flips on a trampoline so risky? Test 16 · ★ of lesson 250 «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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 16 · ★ · Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing

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Why are flips on a trampoline so risky?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** flips, trampoline

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This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 250 «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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/250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing/#t16).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:t16:1
# text = Why are flips on a trampoline so risky?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	flips	flip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trampoline	trampoline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	risky	risky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | flips |  | a trampoline |  |  | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Landing on your head or neck can cause bad injuries

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:t16:o1:1
# text = Landing on your head or neck can cause bad injuries
1	Landing	land	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	cause	cause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	injuries	injury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | gerund |  |  |  | your head or neck |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on head=Destination |
| 2 | **cause** | can | Landing | bad injuries |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition injury=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They are only risky outside

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:t16:o2:1
# text = They are only risky outside
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	risky	risky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | outside, risky *property* | tree rules |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They are too slow

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:t16:o3:1
# text = They are too slow
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | They |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
They wear out the springs much faster than jumping

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:250-gymnastics-winter-sports-and-fishing:t16:o4:1
# text = They wear out the springs much faster than jumping
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wear	wear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	springs	spring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	jumping	jump	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wear out** | present | They |  |  |  | spring | fast *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **jump** | gerund | They *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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