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title: A small wheel and a big wheel roll into the same stone. Which gets o… — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics
description: A small wheel and a big wheel roll into the same stone. Which gets over it more easily? Test 7 · ★★ 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 right.
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# Test 7 · ★★ · Riding a bike: why it stays up

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A small wheel and a big wheel roll into the same stone. Which gets over it more easily?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** get · **To what, where:** stone

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This is test 7 · ★★ 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/#t7).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A small wheel and a big wheel roll into the same stone.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t7:1
# text = A small wheel and a big wheel roll into the same stone.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	roll	roll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

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*Sentence 2:* Which gets over it more easily?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t7:2
# text = Which gets over it more easily?
1	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present |  |  |  | stone |  | easily *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination |

## The options {#options}

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

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The big wheel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t7:o1:1
# text = The big wheel
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wheel	wheel	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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The small wheel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t7:o2:1
# text = The small wheel
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	wheel	wheel	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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Both the same

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t7:o3:1
# text = Both the same
1	Both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc:preconj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Neither can get over it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t7:o4:1
# text = Neither can get over it
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | can |  |  |  | it |  | neither *property* | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over it=Destination |

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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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