Test 1 · ★★ · Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, stea…

«toad drives like 100 mph lol» How fast could a 1908 car legally go on a British road?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: toad · What happens: drive, go · To what, where: British road · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 83 «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» of the history 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 drives	punct
2	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drives	nsubj
3	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 mph	case
5	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 mph	nummod
6	mph	mph	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drives	obl
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 drives	discourse
8	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 drives	punct
9	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 go	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 car	aux
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 car	det
13	1908	1908	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 car	nummod
14	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fast	conj
15	legally	legally	ADV	_	16 go	advmod
16	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drives	parataxis
17	on	on	ADP	_	20 road	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 road	det
19	British	British	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 road	amod
20	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 go	obl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 drives	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive in a quote	present	toad					like 100 mph	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
2	go	present				a British road		legally property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=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 · ← Mova's choice

There was no limit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 limit	det
4	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	no limit			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

100 miles an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 miles	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 3

70 miles an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 miles	nmod:unmarked

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

20 miles an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hour	det
4	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 miles	nmod:unmarked

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

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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