Test 15 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

Why do children under about 12 or 13 ride in the back seat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: children, 12 ride

This is test 15 · ★★ of lesson 268 «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» 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	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	obj
4	under	under	ADP	_	9 ride	case
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 12	advmod
6	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 ride	nummod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 13	cc
8	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 12	conj
9	ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 seat	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 seat	det
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seat	compound
13	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ride	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present		children		12 ride in the back seat			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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

A front airbag can injure a small child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 airbag	det
2	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 airbag	amod
3	airbag	airbag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 injure	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 injure	aux
5	injure	injure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 child	amod
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 injure	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	injure	can	a front airbag	a small child					tree rules

Option 2

The front seat is too high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seat	det
2	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seat	amod
3	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 high	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 high	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 high	advmod
6	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

It is only to stop them fighting over the radio

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	5 stop	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stop	obj
7	fighting	fight	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 radio	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 radio	det
10	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					stop property	tree rules
2	fight	gerund						over the radio	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over radio=Theme

Option 4

The back seat is warmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seat	det
2	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seat	compound
3	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warmer	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warmer	cop
5	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

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