--- title: A child in Australia drops a ball. Which way does it fall? — Gravity · tree and pragmatics description: A child in Australia drops a ball. Which way does it fall? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 6 «Gravity» of the world course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/6-gravity/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/) / [Gravity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/6-gravity/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Gravity A child in Australia drops a ball. Which way does it fall? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** child, way · **What happens:** drop, fall · **To what, where:** ball This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 6 «Gravity» of the world 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/world/6-gravity/#t1). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A child in Australia drops a ball. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t1:1 # text = A child in Australia drops a ball. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Australia Australia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drop** | present | a child in Australia | a ball | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which way does it fall? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t1:2 # text = Which way does it fall? 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 does do AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | present · do-support | which way | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} Up into the sky ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t1:o1:1 # text = Up into the sky 1 Up up ADV RB _ 0 root _ _ 2 into into ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Sideways, towards the equator in the middle of the Earth ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t1:o2:1 # text = Sideways, towards the equator in the middle of the Earth 1 Sideways sideways ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 towards towards ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 equator equator NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} Towards Europe ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t1:o3:1 # text = Towards Europe 1 Towards Towards PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Towards the ground, towards the Earth's centre ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t1:o4:1 # text = Towards the ground, towards the Earth's centre 1 Towards towards ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 5 towards towards ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 centre centre NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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