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title: In a game a rider brakes hard with only the front brake on a steep h… — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics
description: In a game a rider brakes hard with only the front brake on a steep hill and stops neatly. What would really happen? Test 4 · ★★ 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; Mov
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# Test 4 · ★★ · Riding a bike: why it stays up

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In a game a rider brakes hard with only the front brake on a steep hill and stops neatly. What would really happen?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** rider · **What happens:** brake, stop, happen · **To what, where:** game

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This is test 4 · ★★ 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/#t4).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a game a rider brakes hard with only the front brake on a steep hill and stops neatly.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t4:1
# text = In a game a rider brakes hard with only the front brake on a steep hill and stops neatly.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	brakes	brake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	steep	steep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	stops	stop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brake** | present | a rider |  |  | a game |  | with the front brake; on a steep hill; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stop** | present | a rider *not said here* |  |  |  |  | neatly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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 would really happen?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t4:2
# text = What would really happen?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	really	really	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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The rider could fly over the handlebars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t4:o1:1
# text = The rider could fly over the handlebars
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	fly	fly	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	handlebars	handlebar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | could | the rider |  |  | the handlebars |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over handlebar=Location |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The back wheel would lift the rider up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t4:o2:1
# text = The back wheel would lift the rider up
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	lift	lift	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift up** | would | the back wheel | the rider |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rider=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The bike would roll backwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t4:o3:1
# text = The bike would roll backwards
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | would | the bike |  |  |  |  | backwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The bike would stop smoothly and safely in a second

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t4:o4:1
# text = The bike would stop smoothly and safely in a second
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stop** | would | the bike |  |  |  | second | smoothly *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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