Test 12 · How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people

«mate says Henry Ford's line made cars slower but nicer» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, line · What happens: say, make, be · To what, where: cars · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 of lesson 1 «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 line	nmod:poss
5	Ford	Ford	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Henry	flat
6	's	's	PART	_	4 Henry	case
7	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 made	nsubj
8	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
9	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obj
10	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 made	xcomp
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 nicer	cc
12	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 slower	conj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 made	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 right	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 made	parataxis
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	mate			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make in a quote	past	Henry's line	cars	slow property	tree rules
3	is	present			right property	tree rules

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

Yes, a car then took a week instead of a day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	nsubj
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 took	advmod
6	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 week	det
8	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obj
9	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	12 day	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 instead	fixed
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 took	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	a car				then; day; week		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yes, each car was then built by one worker alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 built	aux:pass
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 built	advmod
7	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 worker	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 worker	nummod
10	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 built	obl
11	alone	alone	ADV	_	10 worker	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past · passive	one worker	each car			then		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, it cut building time from about 12 hours to about an hour and a half

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	building	build	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 hours	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 12	advmod
9	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 hours	nummod
10	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cut	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	14 hour	case
12	about	about	ADV	_	14 hour	advmod
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hour	det
14	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cut	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 half	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 half	det
17	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	14 hour	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	past	it				hour; time		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus
2	build	gerund							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, it made a whole car in about one minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 car	amod
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 minute	case
9	about	about	ADV	_	10 one	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 minute	nummod
11	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it	a whole car			minute		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material car=Product

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