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title: Without air, how would a raindrop from a high cloud arrive? — Why things fall: the apple and the pul… · tree and pragmatics
description: Without air, how would a raindrop from a high cloud arrive? Test 6 of lesson 1 «Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth» of the physics 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 6 · Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth

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Without air, how would a raindrop from a high cloud arrive?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** raindrop · **What happens:** arrive

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This is test 6 of lesson 1 «Why things fall: the apple and the pull of the Earth» of the physics 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/physics/1-why-things-fall/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:1-why-things-fall:t6:1
# text = Without air, how would a raindrop from a high cloud arrive?
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
5	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	raindrop	raindrop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | would | a raindrop from a high cloud |  |  |  |  | without air | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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Just as gently as now

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:1-why-things-fall:t6:o1:1
# text = Just as gently as now
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	gently	gently	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
```

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

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

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Faster than a racing car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:1-why-things-fall:t6:o2:1
# text = Faster than a racing car
1	Faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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It would float back to the cloud

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:1-why-things-fall:t6:o3:1
# text = It would float back to the cloud
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	float	float	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float back** | would | It |  |  | the cloud |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cloud=Destination |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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It would never reach the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:1-why-things-fall:t6:o4:1
# text = It would never reach the ground
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **reach** | would | It | the ground |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ground=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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