---
title: What would a curling stone do on rough, bumpy ice? — Rockets, record speeds and motion ever… · tree and pragmatics
description: What would a curling stone do on rough, bumpy ice? Test 7 · ★★★ 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 choice was wrong.
---

<!-- md -->
[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/t7/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / t7

# Test 7 · ★★★ · Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
What would a curling stone do on rough, bumpy ice?

<!-- .vintro -->
**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** curling stone · **What happens:** do · **To what, where:** rough bumpy ice

<!-- .vabout -->
This is test 7 · ★★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t7:1
# text = What would a curling stone do on rough, bumpy ice?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	curling	curling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	bumpy	bumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | would | a curling stone |  |  | rough bumpy ice |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Slide even further

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t7:o1:1
# text = Slide even further
1	Slide	slide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Stop very soon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t7:o2:1
# text = Stop very soon
1	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Fly up into the air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t7:o3:1
# text = Fly up into the air
1	Fly	fly	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly up** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the air *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Spin faster and faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere:t7:o4:1
# text = Spin faster and faster
1	Spin	spin	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Rockets, record speeds and motion ever…, test 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/t6/)
- next →: [Rockets, record speeds and motion ever…, test 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/t8/)
- ↑ back to [Rockets, record speeds and motion everywhere](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/38-rockets-record-speeds-and-motion-everywhere/)