Test 11 · Speed: fast and slow
A full lorry and an empty one have the same engine. Which speeds up faster?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: full lorry · What happens: have, speed up · To what, where: same engine
This is test 11 of lesson 36 «Speed: fast and slow» 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
Sentence 1: A full lorry and an empty one have the same engine.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 lorry | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lorry | amod |
| 3 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 one | cc |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 one | det |
| 6 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 one | amod |
| 7 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lorry | conj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 engine | det |
| 10 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 engine | amod |
| 11 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | a full lorry and a empty one | the same engine | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=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.
Sentence 2: Which speeds up faster?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 speeds | nsubj |
| 2 | speeds | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 speeds | compound:prt |
| 4 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 speeds | advmod |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 speeds | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed up | present | fast property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
The full lorry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lorry | det |
| 2 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lorry | amod |
| 3 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Neither can speed up
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 3 speed | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 speed | aux |
| 3 | speed | speed | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 speed | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed up | can | neither property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
The empty lorry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lorry | det |
| 2 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lorry | amod |
| 3 | lorry | lorry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Both the same
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | CCONJ | _ | 3 same | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 same | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 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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