Test 7 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

Why do adult seat belts not fit most 9-year-olds?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: adult seat belts · What happens: do, not fit · To what, where: 9 year olds

This is test 7 · ★★ 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=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 fit	advcl
3	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 belts	amod
4	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 belts	compound
5	belts	belt	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fit	nsubj
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 fit	advmod
7	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	9 9	advmod
9	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 olds	nummod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 9	punct
11	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 olds	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 year	punct
13	olds	old	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fit	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 fit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	adult seat belts not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not fit	present	adult seat belts	9 year olds					vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent old=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

They are too short to reach a child

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 short	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 short	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 short	advmod
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 reach	mark
6	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 short	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 child	det
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					short property	tree rules
2	reach	to-infinitive	They not said here	a child					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent child=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are made for adults and sit on the neck and tummy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 made	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 sit	cc
7	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 made	conj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 neck	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 neck	det
10	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tummy	cc
12	tummy	tummy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 neck	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present · passive		They				for adults	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for adult=Beneficiary
2	sit	present				the neck and tummy			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on neck=Location

Option 3

Children are too heavy for them and would break them in a sudden stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 heavy	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 break	cc
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 break	aux
9	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heavy	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 break	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 stop	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stop	det
13	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stop	amod
14	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Children					for them = they; heavy property	tree rules
2	break	would	Children not said here	Children = child		a sudden stop			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient

Option 4

They only work in the front seat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 work	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 work	advmod
3	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 seat	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 seat	det
6	front	front	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 seat	amod
7	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	They					in the front seat	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in seat=Theme

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