Test 12 · ★★ · Building and making things safely

robot car won't move, tried it once, it's broken forever

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robot car · What happens: not move, try, break · To what, where: car

This is test 12 · ★★ of lesson 244 «Building and making things safely» 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	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 car	compound
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 move	nsubj
3	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 move	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 move	advmod
5	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tried	punct
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 move	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tried	obj
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 tried	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 broken	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 broken	nsubj:pass
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 broken	aux:pass
13	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 move	conj
14	forever	forever	ADV	_	13 broken	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not move	future	robot car			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	try	past	robot car not said here	car	once property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
3	break	present · passive		car	forever property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Hit it until it moves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hit	obj
3	until	until	SCONJ	_	5 moves	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 moves	nsubj
5	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hit	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	it					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Co-Theme
2	move	present	it						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Change everything at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	1 Change	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 once	case
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Change	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	imperative	you not said here	everything					vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

Option 3

Give up, it will never work now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Give	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 work	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 work	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 work	aux
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 work	advmod
7	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
8	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	imperative	you not said here						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not work	future	it				now		vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Change one thing, test and try again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Change	change	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 thing	nummod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Change	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 test	punct
5	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Change	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 try	cc
7	try	try	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Change	conj
8	again	again	ADV	_	7 try	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	change	imperative	you not said here	one thing		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	test	infinitive	you not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	try	infinitive	you not said here		again	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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