Test 8 · Speed: fast and slow

just shut up and drive, I'm texting, it's fine. is it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: I · What happens: shut up, drive, text, be · To what, where: it

This is test 8 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 shut	advmod
2	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fine	csubj
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 shut	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 drive	cc
5	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 shut	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 texting	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 texting	nsubj
8	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 texting	aux
9	texting	text	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 shut	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fine	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fine	expl
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fine	cop
13	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fine	punct
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 it	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fine	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 fine	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shut up	infinitive				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	drive	infinitive				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	text	present · progressive	I			tree rules
4	is	present			fine property	tree rules
5	is a	present		it		tree rules

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, texting doesn't count as driving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 count	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	texting	texting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 count	nsubj
4	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 count	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 count	advmod
6	count	count	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 driving	case
8	driving	driving	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not count	present · do-support	texting					as driving	vn masquerade-29.6 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as driving=Attribute

Option 2

Yes, phones make drivers react faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 phones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	obj
6	react	react	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	xcomp
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 react	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	phones	drivers					tree rules
2	react	infinitive	drivers not said here					fast property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Yes, if the car is slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

No, drivers on phones react later and travel further before braking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 react	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 react	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 phones	case
5	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drivers	nmod
6	react	react	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 react	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 travel	cc
9	travel	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 react	conj
10	further	further	ADV	_	9 travel	advmod
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	12 braking	mark
12	braking	brake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 travel	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	react	present	drivers on phones	late property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	travel	infinitive	drivers on phones not said here	further property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	brake	gerund	drivers on phones not said here		tree rules

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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