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title: In a film a horse pulls a heavy cart up an icy road with ease. What… — Pushes and pulls all around us · tree and pragmatics
description: In a film a horse pulls a heavy cart up an icy road with ease. What is wrong? Test 6 · ★★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 6 · ★★ · Pushes and pulls all around us

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In a film a horse pulls a heavy cart up an icy road with ease. What is wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** horse · **What happens:** pull, be · **To what, where:** heavy cart, film

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This is test 6 · ★★ 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a film a horse pulls a heavy cart up an icy road with ease.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:t6:1
# text = In a film a horse pulls a heavy cart up an icy road with ease.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	film	film	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	pulls	pull	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	icy	icy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | a horse | a heavy cart |  | a film |  | up a icy road; with ease | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=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.

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*Sentence 2:* What is wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:t6:2
# text = What is wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	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 {#o1}

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The cart would be lighter on ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:t6:o1:1
# text = The cart would be lighter on ice
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	lighter	light	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | the cart |  |  | ice |  | light *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Nothing, horses pull best on ice

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:t6:o2:1
# text = Nothing, horses pull best on ice
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pull	pull	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** | present | horses |  |  |  |  | on ice; Nothing *vocative*; well *property* | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on ice=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Horses do not push on the ground

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:t6:o3:1
# text = Horses do not push on the ground
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	push	push	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **push** | present · do-support | Horses |  |  |  |  | on the ground | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on ground=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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On ice the horse's hooves would slip and it would struggle

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:5-pushes-and-pulls-all-around-us:t6:o4:1
# text = On ice the horse's hooves would slip and it would struggle
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	hooves	hoove	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
7	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	struggle	struggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slip** | would | the horse's hooves |  |  | ice |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **struggle** | would | horse |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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