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Test 2 · ★★★ · Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens

★★★ "A little used car" and "a little-used car." Which one is a car that is not driven much?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: one · What happens: use, be, not drive · To what, where: car

This is test 2 · ★★★ of lesson 36 «Brackets, dashes, colons, semicolons and hyphens» 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: ★★★ "A little used car" and "a little-used car."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
2	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	compound
3	★	★	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 car	punct
5	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 car	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 car	amod
7	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 car	amod
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	appos
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 car	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 car	cc
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 car	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 car	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 used	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 little	punct
15	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 car	amod
16	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 car	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 car	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use in a quote	participle							vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use in a quote	participle							vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 one is a car that is not driven much?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 car	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 car	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 driven	nsubj:pass
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 driven	aux:pass
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 driven	advmod
9	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 car	acl:relcl
10	much	much	ADV	_	9 driven	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 car	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	which one	a car					tree rules
2	not drive	present · passive		a car					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A little-used car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 car	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 used	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 little	punct
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 car	amod
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle							vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

A little used car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 car	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 car	amod
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 car	amod
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle							vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Both mean exactly that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 mean	nsubj
2	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 that	advmod
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Both	that					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic

Option 4

Neither means that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 means	nsubj
2	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Neither	that					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic

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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