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title: What would happen if a skydiver dived head first like an arrow? — Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if a skydiver dived head first like an arrow? Test 2 · ★ of lesson 3 «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» 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 wrong.
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# Test 2 · ★ · Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely

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What would happen if a skydiver dived head first like an arrow?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** skydiver · **What happens:** happen, dive · **To what, where:** head

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This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 3 «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» 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/3-parachutes-and-falling-safely/#t2).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:3-parachutes-and-falling-safely:t2:1
# text = What would happen if a skydiver dived head first like an arrow?
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	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skydiver	skydiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dived	dive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	7	advmod	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	?	?	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 | **dive** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | a skydiver | head |  |  |  | like a arrow; first *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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They would stop in the air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:3-parachutes-and-falling-safely:t2:o1:1
# text = They would stop in the air
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | They |  |  | the air |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location |

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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They would fall much faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:3-parachutes-and-falling-safely:t2:o2:1
# text = They would fall much faster
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | They |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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They would rise back up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:3-parachutes-and-falling-safely:t2:o3:1
# text = They would rise back up
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	rise	rise	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 | **rise back** | would | They |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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They would fall more slowly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:3-parachutes-and-falling-safely:t2:o4:1
# text = They would fall more slowly
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | They |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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