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title: What would happen if you leaned into a bend while going very slowly? — Riding a bike: why it stays up · tree and pragmatics
description: What would happen if you leaned into a bend while going very slowly? Test 9 · ★★ 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 9 · ★★ · Riding a bike: why it stays up

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What would happen if you leaned into a bend while going very slowly?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** happen, learn, go · **To what, where:** bend

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This is test 9 · ★★ 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/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t9:1
# text = What would happen if you leaned into a bend while going very slowly?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 |
| 2 | **learn** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | you |  |  | a bend |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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You would suddenly go a lot faster

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t9:o1:1
# text = You would suddenly go a lot faster
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | would | You | a lot |  |  |  | fast, suddenly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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You would tip over inwards

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t9:o2:1
# text = You would tip over inwards
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	tip	tip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	inwards	inwards	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tip over** | would | You |  |  |  |  | inwards, over *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Nothing at all would happen to you

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t9:o3:1
# text = Nothing at all would happen to you
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	1	nmod	_	_
4	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | would | Nothing |  | you |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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You would fall outwards away from the bend

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:9-riding-a-bike:t9:o4:1
# text = You would fall outwards away from the bend
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	outwards	outwards	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bend	bend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | would | You |  |  | the bend |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bend=Initial\_Location |

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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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