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Test 7 · Vocabulary in context

«the servo's shut, we'll have to push the ute» (ute is Aussie for pickup truck). Why push it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we, ute, you · What happens: have, push, be · To what, where: ute, Aussie

This is test 7 of lesson 20 «Vocabulary in context» of the English 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

Sentence 1: «the servo's shut, we'll have to push the ute» (ute is Aussie for pickup truck).

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 shut	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 servo	det
3	servo	servo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shut	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 servo	case
5	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
8	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shut	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 push	mark
11	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ute	det
13	ute	ute	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 push	obj
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 shut	punct
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 Aussie	punct
16	ute	ute	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Aussie	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 Aussie	cop
18	Aussie	Aussie	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 shut	parataxis
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 truck	case
20	pickup	pickup	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 truck	compound
21	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Aussie	nmod
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 Aussie	punct
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 shut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	future	we						tree rules
2	push in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here	the ute					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ute=Theme
3	is a	present	ute	Aussie				for pickup truck	tree rules

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: Why push it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 push	advmod
2	push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 push	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 push	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here	ute					vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

They want exercise

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 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 want	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	They	exercise					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot exercise=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They probably need petrol and the petrol station is closed

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	3 need	nsubj
2	probably	probably	ADV	_	3 need	advmod
3	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 need	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 closed	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 station	det
7	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 station	compound
8	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 closed	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 closed	aux:pass
10	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 need	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	They	petrol				probably property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot petrol=Theme
2	close	present · passive		the petrol station					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

The ute is too clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ute	det
2	ute	ute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clean	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 clean	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 clean	advmod
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ute					clean property	tree rules

Option 4

A servo is a broken engine, so the ute won't start without it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 servo	det
2	servo	servo	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 engine	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 engine	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 engine	det
5	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 engine	amod
6	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 start	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 start	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ute	det
10	ute	ute	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 start	nsubj
11	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 start	aux
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 start	advmod
13	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 engine	conj
14	without	without	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 start	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	a servo	a broken engine					tree rules
3	not start	future	the ute					without servo	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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