Test 9 · ★ · Seat belts, crashes and keeping safe
A heavy suitcase sits on the back seat next to your sister. What should Dad do?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: heavy suitcase, Dad · What happens: sit, do · To what, where: back seat
This is test 9 · ★ 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: A heavy suitcase sits on the back seat next to your sister.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 suitcase | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 suitcase | amod |
| 3 | suitcase | suitcase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | nsubj |
| 4 | sits | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 seat | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 seat | det |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seat | compound |
| 8 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 9 | next | next | ADV | _ | 12 sister | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 sister | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 sister | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sits | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sits | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | present | a heavy suitcase | the back seat | to your sister | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seat=Location |
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 should Dad do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 do | obj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | Dad | Dad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | Dad | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
Put it on her lap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 lap | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lap | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | it | her lap | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on lap=Destination |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Leave it, it's heavy so it won't move
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Leave | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heavy | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heavy | cop |
| 6 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Leave | advcl |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 move | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 move | nsubj |
| 9 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 move | aux |
| 10 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 move | advmod |
| 11 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Leave | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | it | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | it | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not move | future | it | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Put it in the boot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Put | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 boot | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 boot | det |
| 5 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Put | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | imperative | you not said here | it | the boot | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in boot=Destination |
Option 4
Tie it to the headrest with a ribbon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tie | tie | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tie | obj |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 headrest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 headrest | det |
| 5 | headrest | headrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tie | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ribbon | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ribbon | det |
| 8 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tie | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | imperative | you not said here | it | to the headrest; with a ribbon | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient to headrest=Co-Patient with ribbon=Instrument |
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