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title: Which bike would be best for a muddy forest track? — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics
description: Which bike would be best for a muddy forest track? Test 5 · ★★ 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 5 · ★★ · Riding a bike: why it stays up

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Which bike would be best for a muddy forest track?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bike · **What happens:** be

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This is test 5 · ★★ 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/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t5:1
# text = Which bike would be best for a muddy forest track?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
5	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | which bike |  |  |  |  | for a muddy forest track; well *property* | tree rules |

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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 {#o1}

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A bike with no tyres, just the metal rims

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t5:o1:1
# text = A bike with no tyres, just the metal rims
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	metal	metal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	rims	rim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
```

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

### Option 2 {#o2}

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A bike with flat tyres that bump on the rim

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t5:o2:1
# text = A bike with flat tyres that bump on the rim
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	bump	bump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rim	rim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bump** | present | flat tyres |  |  | the rim |  |  | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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A road bike with thin, smooth racing tyres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t5:o3:1
# text = A road bike with thin, smooth racing tyres
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	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 mountain bike with wide knobbly tyres

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t5:o4:1
# text = A mountain bike with wide knobbly tyres
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	knobbly	knobbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
```

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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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