--- title: Leo whirls a ball on a string around his head. What plays the part o… — Gravity · tree and pragmatics description: Leo whirls a ball on a string around his head. What plays the part of the string for the Moon? Test 4 · ★ 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/world/6-gravity/t4/) [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/) / t4 # Test 4 · ★ · Gravity Leo whirls a ball on a string around his head. What plays the part of the string for the Moon? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 1 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Leo · **What happens:** whirl, play · **To what, where:** ball, string, part This is test 4 · ★ 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/#t4). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* Leo whirls a ball on a string around his head. ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t4:1 # text = Leo whirls a ball on a string around his head. 1 Leo Leo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 whirls whirl VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 around around ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **whirl** | present | Leo | a ball | | a string | | around Leo's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent ball=Theme on string=Source around head=Trajectory | 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:* What plays the part of the string for the Moon? ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t4:2 # text = What plays the part of the string for the Moon? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 2 nsubj _ _ 2 plays play VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 string string NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **play** | present | | the part of the string for the Moon | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ✓ the right answer {#o1} The Earth's gravity ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t4:o1:1 # text = The Earth's gravity 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 gravity gravity NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} The Earth's air ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t4:o2:1 # text = The Earth's air 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The Moon's speed ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t4:o3:1 # text = The Moon's speed 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} The Sun's light ```conllu # sent_id = question:world:6-gravity:t4:o4:1 # text = The Sun's light 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sun Sun PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **light** | | the Sun | | | | | | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent | **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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