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title: drop a hammer n a feather on the moon, which lands first — Gravity · tree and pragmatics
description: drop a hammer n a feather on the moon, which lands first Test 11 · ★ 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 wrong.
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# Test 11 · ★ · Gravity

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drop a hammer n a feather on the moon, which lands first

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, moon · **What happens:** drop, land · **To what, where:** hammer, moon

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This is test 11 · ★ 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/#t11).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t11:1
# text = drop a hammer n a feather on the moon, which lands first
1	drop	drop	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	n	n	ADV	FW	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lands	land	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | imperative | you *not said here* | a hammer |  | the moon |  | a feather *obl* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme on moon=Destination |
| 2 | **land** | present | the moon |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «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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The hammer, coz heavy things always fall faster than light ones

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t11:o1:1
# text = The hammer, coz heavy things always fall faster than light ones
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	coz	because	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	8	advmod	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
10	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | the hammer because heavy things |  |  |  |  | always, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2}

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Neither, nothing falls on the Moon

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t11:o2:1
# text = Neither, nothing falls on the Moon
1	Neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nsubj	_	_
4	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | present | nothing |  |  | the Moon |  | neither *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on moon=Location |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The feather, it floats down faster without air

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t11:o3:1
# text = The feather, it floats down faster without air
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	floats	float	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
8	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **float down** | present | the feather |  |  |  |  | without air; down, fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Both land together, there's no air to slow the feather

```conllu
# sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t11:o4:1
# text = Both land together, there's no air to slow the feather
1	Both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
5	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	slow	slow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	feather	feather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | both land |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **slow** | to-infinitive | both land *not said here* | the feather |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |

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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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