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Test 5 · Remembering details

A car hits a fence and drives off. What is most useful to remember?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car · What happens: hit, drive off, be, remember · To what, where: fence

This is test 5 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» 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

Sentence 1: A car hits a fence and drives off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hits	nsubj
3	hits	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fence	det
5	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hits	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 drives	cc
7	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hits	conj
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 drives	compound:prt
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hits	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	present	a car	a fence					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fence=Co-Theme
2	drive off	present	a car not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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: What is most useful to remember?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 useful	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 useful	cop
3	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 useful	advmod
4	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 remember	mark
6	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 useful	advcl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 useful	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						useful property	tree rules
2	remember	to-infinitive							vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

How many birds were nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birds	amod
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 nearby	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nearby	cop
5	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	many birds					nearby property	tree rules

Option 2

What the fence was made of

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fence	det
3	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 made	aux:pass
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 What	acl:relcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · passive		the fence					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

What the weather was like the day before the crash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 weather	det
3	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 day	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	obl:unmarked
8	before	before	ADP	_	10 crash	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 crash	det
10	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the weather				like the day; before the crash		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Colour, type of car and part of the plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 type	punct
3	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Colour	conj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 car	case
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 type	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 part	cc
7	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Colour	conj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 plate	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 plate	det
10	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 part	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	type			car					nom type «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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