Test 3 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

Which child should sit in the front seat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: sit · To what, where: front seat

This is test 3 · ★★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 sit	aux
4	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 seat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seat	det
7	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 seat	amod
8	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sit	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	should	which child			the front seat			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in seat=Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

Neither, if there is room in the back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 is	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 is	mark
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 is	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 back	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 back	det
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 room	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	room in the back			there		neither property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Any child who asks the driver politely first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	2 child	det
2	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 asks	nsubj
4	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 child	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 driver	det
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asks	obj
7	politely	politely	ADV	_	4 asks	advmod
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 asks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	any child		the driver			first, politely property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient

Option 3

A 10-year-old, because she is big enough

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 old	det
2	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 10	punct
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 big	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 big	mark
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 big	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 big	cop
11	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
12	enough	enough	ADV	_	11 big	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					big, enough property	tree rules

Option 4

A 7-year-old, so a parent can watch him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 old	det
2	7	7	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 year	nummod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 7	punct
4	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 old	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 year	punct
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 watch	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 watch	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 parent	det
10	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 watch	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 watch	aux
12	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 old	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 watch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	can	a parent	him = he					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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