Test 1 · ★★ · Pulleys, gears and big machines

oi, the car's on the jack, just crawl under and grab my ball. fine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: crawl under, grab · To what, where: ball

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 35 «Pulleys, gears and big machines» 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	oi	oi	X	Foreign=Yes	8 jack	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 jack	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jack	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 car	case
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 jack	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 jack	det
8	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 crawl	punct
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 crawl	advmod
11	crawl	crawl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 jack	parataxis
12	under	under	ADP	_	11 crawl	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 grab	cc
14	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 crawl	conj
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 ball	nmod:poss
16	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 grab	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 fine	punct
18	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 crawl	conj
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 jack	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crawl under	infinitive							vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab	infinitive		my ball					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme

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

Yes, if you are quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 quick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 quick	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 quick	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quick	cop
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					quick property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, if the engine is off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 off	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 off	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 engine	det
5	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 off	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 off	cop
7	off	off	ADV	_	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the engine					off property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, never go under a car held only by a jack; it can slip

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 go	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 car	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl
8	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 car	acl
9	only	only	ADV	_	12 jack	advmod
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 jack	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 jack	det
12	jack	jack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 held	obl:agent
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 slip	punct
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 slip	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 slip	aux
16	slip	slip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	not go	imperative	you not said here		a car	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under car=Location
2	hold	participle		a car not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	slip	can	jack			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Yes, jacks never fail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 fail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	jacks	jack	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fail	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 fail	advmod
5	fail	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fail	present	jacks						vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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