Test 7 · Bike helmets and roads
Dev: «cars stop, don't they?» How far would a car at 30 mph travel before stopping?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cars, 30 mph travel · What happens: stop, not do · To what, where: cars
This is test 7 of lesson 72 «Bike helmets and roads» of the medicine 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: Dev: «cars stop, don't they?»
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dev | Dev | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stop | vocative |
| 2 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dev | punct |
| 3 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| 4 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stop | nsubj |
| 5 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 stop | xcomp |
| 8 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 do | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| 11 | » | » | PUNCT | _ | 5 stop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | present | cars | Dev vocative | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | infinitive | cars not said here | cars = car | vn act-114-1 «NP 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: How far would a car at 30 mph travel before stopping?
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 | 5 car | advmod |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 car | aux |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 car | det |
| 5 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 travel | case |
| 7 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 travel | nummod |
| 8 | mph | mph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 travel | compound |
| 9 | travel | travel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 car | nmod |
| 10 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 11 stopping | mark |
| 11 | stopping | stop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 travel | acl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 car | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | gerund | 30 mph travel not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
About 23 m
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 23 | advmod |
| 2 | 23 | 23 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 m | nummod |
| 3 | m | m | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
It stops instantly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stops | nsubj |
| 2 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 2 stops | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present | It | instantly property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
About half a metre
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 half | advmod |
| 2 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 4 metre | det:predet |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 metre | det |
| 4 | metre | metre | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
About 2 m
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 2 | advmod |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 m | nummod |
| 3 | m | m | 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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