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title: How is a bowling alley like a row of dominoes? — Pushes and pulls all around us · tree and pragmatics
description: How is a bowling alley like a row of dominoes? Test 11 · ★★ of lesson 5 «Pushes and pulls all around us» 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 right.
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# Test 11 · ★★ · Pushes and pulls all around us

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How is a bowling alley like a row of dominoes?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bowling alley · **What happens:** be, bowl

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This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 5 «Pushes and pulls all around us» 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/5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:t11:1
# text = How is a bowling alley like a row of dominoes?
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	bowling	bowl	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	dominoes	domino	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | a bowling alley like a row of dominoes |  |  |  |  | how *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bowl** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Each thing passes its push on to the next

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:t11:o1:1
# text = Each thing passes its push on to the next
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passes	pass	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	push	push	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | present | each thing | thing's push |  | the next |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent push=Theme on next=Destination |
| 2 | **push** |  | thing |  |  |  |  |  | nom push «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Each thing pulls the one behind

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:t11:o2:1
# text = Each thing pulls the one behind
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | each thing | the one |  |  |  | behind *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Each thing gets heavier and heavier as it falls

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:t11:o3:1
# text = Each thing gets heavier and heavier as it falls
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	conj	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | each thing |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fall** | present | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Each thing stays perfectly still

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:t11:o4:1
# text = Each thing stays perfectly still
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	perfectly	perfectly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | present | each thing |  |  |  | still | perfectly *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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