Test 8 · ★★★ · Reasoning about the body moving in the world

Why does a car seat belt keep you safe when the car stops suddenly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: car seat belt, car · What happens: keep, stop · To what, where: you

This is test 8 · ★★★ of lesson 10 «Reasoning about the body moving in the world» of the everyday 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	7 keep	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 belt	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 belt	compound
5	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 belt	compound
6	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stops	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 keep	obj
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 stops	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 car	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stops	nsubj
13	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 stops	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 stops	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present · do-support	a car seat belt	you				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	stop	present	the car					suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It holds you so your body does not fly forward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 holds	nsubj
2	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 holds	obj
4	so	so	ADV	_	9 fly	advmod
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 body	nmod:poss
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fly	nsubj
7	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fly	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 fly	advmod
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 holds	advcl
10	forward	forward	ADV	_	9 fly	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	It	you					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	not fly	present · do-support	your body					forward property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It makes the car brake faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	brake	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 brake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the car					tree rules
2	break	infinitive	the car not said here					fast property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It keeps you warm in the seat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	obj
4	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 seat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seat	det
7	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	you		the seat		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme in seat=Location

Option 4

It stops gravity pulling you down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stops	nsubj
2	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gravity	gravity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stops	obj
4	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 gravity	acl
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 pulling	obj
6	down	down	ADP	_	2 stops	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop down	present	It	gravity					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality gravity=Eventuality
2	pull	gerund	gravity not said here	you					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent you=Result

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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