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title: You want to go fast on a flat road. Which gear? — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics
description: You want to go fast on a flat road. Which gear? Test 3 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Riding a bike: why it stays up» 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 3 · ★★ · Riding a bike: why it stays up

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You want to go fast on a flat road. Which gear?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** want, go · **To what, where:** flat road

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This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 9 «Riding a bike: why it stays up» 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/9-riding-a-bike/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* You want to go fast on a flat road.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t3:1
# text = You want to go fast on a flat road.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	want	want	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | present | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | You *not said here* |  |  | a flat road |  | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=Location |

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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:* Which gear?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t3:2
# text = Which gear?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The lowest gear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t3:o1:1
# text = The lowest gear
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A low gear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t3:o2:1
# text = A low gear
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gear	gear	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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No gear at all

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t3:o3:1
# text = No gear at all
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	gear	gear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
```

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

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

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A high gear

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t3:o4:1
# text = A high gear
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	gear	gear	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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