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title: In a cartoon, a sledge rolls up a hill all by itself with nobody pus… — Fuels, the Sun and saving energy · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon, a sledge rolls up a hill all by itself with nobody pushing. What's wrong? Test 8 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» 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 8 · ★★ · Fuels, the Sun and saving energy

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In a cartoon, a sledge rolls up a hill all by itself with nobody pushing. What's wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** sledge, nobody · **What happens:** roll up, push, be · **To what, where:** hill, cartoon

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This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 32 «Fuels, the Sun and saving energy» 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/32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon, a sledge rolls up a hill all by itself with nobody pushing.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t8:1
# text = In a cartoon, a sledge rolls up a hill all by itself with nobody pushing.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sledge	sledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	rolls	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	all	all	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	_
14	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	nsubj	_	_
16	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll up** | present | a sledge | a hill |  | a cartoon |  | by sledge | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent hill=Theme in cartoon=Source by itself=Trajectory |
| 2 | **push** | gerund | nobody |  |  |  |  |  | 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.

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*Sentence 2:* What's wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t8:2
# text = What's wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Snow pushes things uphill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t8:o1:1
# text = Snow pushes things uphill
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pushes	push	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	uphill	uphill	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | present | Snow | things |  |  |  | uphill *property* | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |

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

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Going up a hill needs energy from something, like a push or a motor

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```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t8:o2:1
# text = Going up a hill needs energy from something, like a push or a motor
1	Going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	csubj	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	energy	energy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	motor	motor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go up** | gerund |  | a hill |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient hill=Extent |
| 2 | **need** | present | Going | energy |  | something |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot energy=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing, sledges love going uphill

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t8:o3:1
# text = Nothing, sledges love going uphill
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	uphill	uphill	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | present | Nothing sledges |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | gerund | Nothing sledges *not said here* |  |  |  |  | uphill *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Sledges can only go sideways

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:32-fuels-the-sun-and-saving-energy:t8:o4:1
# text = Sledges can only go sideways
1	Sledges	sledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	sideways	sideways	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | can | Sledges |  |  |  |  | sideways *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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