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Test 11 · ★★ · Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, stea…

★★★ A chauffeur drives at 20 miles an hour for 3 hours, then 10 miles an hour for 1 hour because of the dust. Toad says they went 100 miles. How far did they really go?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ★, chauffeur, Toad, miles · What happens: ★, drive, say, go · To what, where: 10 miles, 100 miles · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: ★★★ A chauffeur drives at 20 miles an hour for 3 hours, then 10 miles an hour for 1 hour because of the dust.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	★	★	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ★	nsubj
2	★	★	X	Foreign=Yes	1 ★	dep
3	★	★	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chauffeur	det
5	chauffeur	chauffeur	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drives	nsubj
6	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ★	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 miles	case
8	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	9 miles	nummod
9	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drives	obl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hour	det
11	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drives	obl:unmarked
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 hours	case
13	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 hours	nummod
14	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 drives	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 miles	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 miles	advmod
17	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	18 miles	nummod
18	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ★	obl
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hour	det
20	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 miles	nmod:unmarked
21	for	for	ADP	_	23 hour	case
22	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 hour	nummod
23	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 miles	nmod
24	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	27 dust	case
25	of	of	ADP	_	24 because	fixed
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 dust	det
27	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ★	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ★	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	★	present	★	10 miles a hour for 1 hour				because the dust	tree rules
2	drive	present	a chauffeur				hour	at 20 miles	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: Toad says they went 100 miles.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Toad	Toad	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
5	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 miles	nummod
6	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Toad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	past	miles = mile	100 miles					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme

Sentence 3: How far did they really go?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 go	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 go	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 go	nsubj
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	miles = mile					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

80 miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

100 miles

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

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

Option 3

60 miles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	2 miles	nummod
2	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

70 miles

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

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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