Test 9 · ★ · Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely

Why does a car have an airbag?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car · What happens: have · To what, where: airbag

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 3 «Parachutes, skydivers and falling safely» of the physics 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	5 have	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 airbag	det
7	airbag	airbag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	a car	a airbag					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent airbag=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 · ← Mova's choice

It makes the car lighter in a crash

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 crash	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crash	det
8	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the car				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material car=Product

Option 2

It keeps the air fresh

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 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the air				fresh property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It makes the stop of your body slower and gentler

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stop	det
4	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 body	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 body	nmod:poss
7	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nmod
8	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 gentler	cc
10	gentler	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 slower	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the stop of your body				slow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material stop=Product
2	stop			your body					nom stop «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

It pushes the car away from the other car in a crash

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 pushes	nsubj
2	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushes	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 pushes	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	9 car	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 car	det
8	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 car	amod
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushes	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 crash	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 crash	det
12	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push away	present	It	the car		the other car		in a crash; away property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent car=Theme from car=Trajectory

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