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Test 3 · ★ · Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe

In a cartoon, a car smashes into a wall and the front stays perfect while the people are thrown about. What's wrong?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car, front · What happens: smash, stay, throw about, be · To what, where: cartoon, people

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 37 «Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe» 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: In a cartoon, a car smashes into a wall and the front stays perfect while the people are thrown about.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 cartoon	punct
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashes	nsubj
7	smashes	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 wall	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashes	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stays	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 front	det
13	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stays	nsubj
14	stays	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 smashes	conj
15	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 stays	xcomp
16	while	while	SCONJ	_	20 thrown	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 people	det
18	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 thrown	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 thrown	aux:pass
20	thrown	throw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 stays	advcl
21	about	about	ADV	_	20 thrown	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 smashes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smash	present	a car			a cartoon		into a wall result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into wall=Result
2	stay	present	the front					perfect property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	throw about	present · passive		the people				about property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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.

Sentence 2: What's wrong?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 wrong	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wrong	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Cars never crumple in crashes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crumple	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 crumple	advmod
3	crumple	crumple	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 crashes	case
5	crashes	crash	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crumple	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not crumple	present	Cars			crashes			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The wall should be the thing that crumples, not the car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wall	det
2	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nsubj
3	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	aux
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 crumples	nsubj
8	crumples	crumple	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 car	punct
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 car	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 car	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	should	the wall	the thing and the car					tree rules
2	crumple	present	the thing and the car						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

People in cars never move in a crash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 move	nsubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 cars	case
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 People	nmod
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 move	advmod
5	move	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	present	People in cars			a crash			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in crash=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Real cars crumple at the front to protect the people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cars	amod
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 crumple	nsubj
3	crumple	crumple	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 front	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 front	det
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crumple	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 protect	mark
8	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 crumple	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 people	det
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 protect	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crumple	present	Real cars			the front			vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	protect	to-infinitive	Real cars not said here		the people				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Beneficiary

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