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Test 4 · ★★★ · Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★

Gran: "That car went past like a rocket, must've done a thousand miles an hour." What does she really mean?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car, Gran · What happens: go past, do, mean · To what, where: thousand miles

This is test 4 · ★★★ of lesson 44 «Olympiad: speed, space and seasons ★★★» 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: Gran: "That car went past like a rocket, must've done a thousand miles an hour."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gran	gran	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 done	nsubj
2	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
4	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Gran	conj
7	past	past	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 rocket	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rocket	det
10	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gran	punct
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
13	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 done	aux
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 thousand	det
16	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 miles	nummod
17	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 done	obj
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hour	det
19	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 miles	nmod:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go past in a quote	past	that car					like a rocket; past property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do in a quote	must · perfect	Gran	thousand miles a hour					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mile=Eventuality

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 does she really mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 mean	advmod
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	Gran						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

It was going rather slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	rather	rather	ADV	_	3 going	advmod
5	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	3 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	It					slowly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It went exactly 1,000 miles an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 1,000	advmod
4	1,000	1000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	5 miles	nummod
5	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	obj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	It	1,000 miles			hour		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mile=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

It really was a rocket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rocket	nsubj
2	really	really	ADV	_	5 rocket	advmod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rocket	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rocket	det
5	rocket	rocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	It	a rocket					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It went very fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 fast	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	It					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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