Test 9 · ★ · Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip

wheels spinning and screaming, what should the driver do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: wheels · What happens: spin, scream, do

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 7 «Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip» 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	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
2	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 wheels	acl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 screaming	cc
4	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 spinning	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 driver	det
9	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	spin	gerund	wheels not said here	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	scream speech: express	gerund	wheels not said here	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	should	wheels	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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.

The options

Option 1

Press the pedal down even harder to get away quicker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Press	press	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pedal	det
3	pedal	pedal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Press	obj
4	down	down	ADV	_	1 Press	advmod
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 harder	advmod
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Press	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Press	advcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 get	advmod
10	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press down	imperative	you not said here	the pedal				down property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedal=Theme
2	get away	to-infinitive	you not said here					away, quick property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Put the brakes on and off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 brakes	det
3	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Put	obj
4	on	on	ADV	_	1 Put	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 off	cc
6	off	off	ADV	_	4 on	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	imperative	you not said here	the brakes					vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brake=Goal

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

Start more smoothly so the tyres roll and grip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Start	start	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 smoothly	advmod
3	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	_	1 Start	advmod
4	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 roll	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tyres	det
6	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 roll	nsubj
7	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Start	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 grip	cc
9	grip	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 roll	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	start	imperative	you not said here	smoothly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	roll	present	the tyres		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grip	present	the tyres not said here		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Turn the steering wheel quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wheel	det
3	steering	steering	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wheel	compound
4	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obj
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	the steering wheel				quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme

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