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title: Which needs the biggest push back to manage: a garden hose, a fire h… — Rockets, record speeds and motion ever… · tree and pragmatics
description: Which needs the biggest push back to manage: a garden hose, a fire hose or a drinking straw? Test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 38 «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 11 · ★★★ · Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere

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Which needs the biggest push back to manage: a garden hose, a fire hose or a drinking straw?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** biggest push · **What happens:** need, manage · **To what, where:** biggest push

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This is test 11 · ★★★ of lesson 38 «Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere» 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/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t11:1
# text = Which needs the biggest push back to manage: a garden hose, a fire hose or a drinking straw?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	needs	need	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	hose	hose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	hose	hose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present |  | the biggest push |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot push=Theme |
| 2 | **manage** | to-infinitive | the biggest push *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: 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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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All exactly the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t11:o1:1
# text = All exactly the same
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	0	root	_	_
2	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
```

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

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

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A fire hose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t11:o2:1
# text = A fire hose
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hose	hose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A garden hose

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t11:o3:1
# text = A garden hose
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hose	hose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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A drinking straw

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t11:o4:1
# text = A drinking straw
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	drinking	drinking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

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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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