--- title: Grandpa's sitting in his armchair "doing nothing". How fast is he re… — Rockets, record speeds and motion ever… · tree and pragmatics description: Grandpa's sitting in his armchair "doing nothing". How fast is he really moving through space? Test 3 · ★★★ 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 c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/t3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/) / [Rockets, record speeds and motion ever…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/) / t3 # Test 3 · ★★★ · Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere Grandpa's sitting in his armchair "doing nothing". How fast is he really moving through space? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Grandpa · **What happens:** sit, do, move · **To what, where:** armchair, nothing, space This is test 3 · ★★★ 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/#t3). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Grandpa's sitting in his armchair "doing nothing". ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t3:1 # text = Grandpa's sitting in his armchair "doing nothing". 1 Grandpa Grandpa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 armchair armchair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 doing do VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 9 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sit** | gerund | | | | Grandpa's armchair | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in armchair=Location | | 2 | **do** *in a quote* | gerund | | nothing | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | 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. *Sentence 2:* How fast is he really moving through space? ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t3:2 # text = How fast is he really moving through space? 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 really really ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 moving move VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 space space NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present · progressive | Grandpa | | | space | | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through space=Trajectory | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} About 900 kilometres an hour ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t3:o1:1 # text = About 900 kilometres an hour 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 900 900 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Not at all, he's sitting perfectly still in his chair ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t3:o2:1 # text = Not at all, he's sitting perfectly still in his chair 1 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 2 at at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 sitting sit VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 perfectly perfectly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 still still ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 chair chair NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **sit** | present · progressive | he | | | his chair | still | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in chair=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} About 40 kilometres an hour ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t3:o3:1 # text = About 40 kilometres an hour 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 40 40 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod:unmarked _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} About 100,000 kilometres an hour round the Sun ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t3:o4:1 # text = About 100,000 kilometres an hour round the Sun 1 About about ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 100,000 100000 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod:unmarked _ _ 4 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 round round ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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