Test 19 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

my mate says putting the shoulder belt behind ur back is fine cos it's comfier. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, putting · What happens: say, put, be · To what, where: shoulder belt, back · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★★ 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	putting	put	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 fine	csubj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 belt	det
6	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 belt	compound
7	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 putting	obj
8	behind	behind	ADP	_	10 back	case
9	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 back	nmod:poss
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 putting	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 says	ccomp
13	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	16 comfier	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 comfier	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 comfier	cop
16	comfier	comfy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 fine	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 fine	punct
18	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	my mate				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	put	gerund		the shoulder belt	ur's back		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent belt=Theme behind back=Destination
3	is	present	putting			fine property	tree rules
4	is	present	mate			comfy property	tree rules

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

No, it goes across the chest and shoulder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 goes	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 chest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chest	det
7	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 shoulder	cc
9	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	it			the chest and shoulder			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across chest=Initial_Location

Option 2

Yes, the lap belt is enough on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 enough	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 belt	det
4	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belt	compound
5	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 enough	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 enough	cop
7	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 enough	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the lap belt			belt's own		enough property	tree rules

Option 3

Yes, on short trips

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 trips	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 trips	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 trips	case
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trips	amod
5	trips	trip	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, comfort matters most

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 comfort	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 matters	nsubj
4	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	4 matters	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	comfort						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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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