Test 8 · ★★ · Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, ea…

Why do drivers almost never get car sick?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: do, not get · To what, where: drivers

This is test 8 · ★★ of lesson 362 «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	advcl
3	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sick	compound
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		drivers					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Eventuality
2	not get	present						almost, sick property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Option 1

Drivers hold their breath while driving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 breath	nmod:poss
4	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 driving	mark
6	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hold	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Drivers	Drivers's breath					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
2	drive	gerund	Drivers not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Drivers have stronger ears than other people because they train them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stronger	strong	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 ears	amod
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 people	case
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 people	amod
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ears	nmod
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 train	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 train	nsubj
10	train	train	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 train	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Drivers	stronger ears				than other people	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
2	train	present	Drivers = driver	ears = ear					vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

The steering wheel stops sickness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wheel	det
2	steering	steering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wheel	compound
3	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	nsubj
4	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stops	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the steering wheel	sickness					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality sickness=Eventuality

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They look ahead at the road, so their eyes and ears agree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 look	nsubj
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	2 look	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 look	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 agree	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 agree	advmod
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 eyes	nmod:poss
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 agree	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ears	cc
12	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eyes	conj
13	agree	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 look	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	They					at the road; ahead property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at road=Theme
2	agree speech: agree	present	their eyes and ears						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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