Test 5 · Friction: the grip that stops and helps

Why do drivers use low gears on long mountain roads?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: drivers · What happens: use · To what, where: low gears, long mountain roads

This is test 5 of lesson 6 «Friction: the grip that stops and helps» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 use	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 use	aux
3	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	nsubj
4	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 gears	amod
6	gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	10 roads	case
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 roads	amod
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roads	compound
10	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 use	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 use	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	present · do-support	drivers	low gears		long mountain roads			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=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.

The options

Option 1

So the car goes faster downhill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 car	det
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goes	nsubj
4	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 goes	advmod
6	downhill	downhill	ADV	_	4 goes	advmod

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

Option 2

To save petrol going down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 going	advcl
3	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obj
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	down	down	ADV	_	4 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		petrol					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petrol=Theme
2	go down	gerund						down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

So the brakes do not get too hot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brakes	det
3	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 get	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 hot	advmod
8	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not get	present · do-support	the brakes					hot property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Because high gears break on hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 break	mark
2	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 gears	amod
3	gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	nsubj
4	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 hills	case
6	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	high gears			hills			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location

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