Test 3 · Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard
Jake reckons the car moves because the engine pushes the road. Right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Jake, car, engine · What happens: reckon, move, push · To what, where: road
This is test 3 of lesson 17 «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» 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
Sentence 1: Jake reckons the car moves because the engine pushes the road.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jake | Jake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reckons | nsubj |
| 2 | reckons | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 car | det |
| 4 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moves | nsubj |
| 5 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 reckons | ccomp |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 9 pushes | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 engine | det |
| 8 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushes | nsubj |
| 9 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 moves | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushes | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 reckons | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | Jake | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move | present | the car | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | push | present | the engine | the road | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
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: Right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | root | root |
| 2 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
No, burning fuel pushes pistons that turn the wheels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 pushes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 pushes | punct |
| 3 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 fuel | amod |
| 4 | fuel | fuel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushes | nsubj |
| 5 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | pistons | piston | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pushes | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 turn | nsubj |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 pistons | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wheels | det |
| 10 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turn | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | push | present | burning fuel | pistons | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piston=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | present | pistons | the wheels | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, the engine has a long leg
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 engine | det |
| 4 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 leg | det |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 leg | amod |
| 8 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the engine | a long leg | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
Option 3
No, the steering wheel moves it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 moves | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wheel | det |
| 4 | steering | steering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wheel | compound |
| 5 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moves | nsubj |
| 6 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 moves | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the steering wheel | it | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, the exhaust pushes hard on the road behind and shoves the car on
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 pushes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 exhaust | det |
| 4 | exhaust | exhaust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushes | nsubj |
| 5 | pushes | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 pushes | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 road | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 road | det |
| 9 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pushes | obl |
| 10 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 5 pushes | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shoves | cc |
| 12 | shoves | shove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pushes | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 car | det |
| 14 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shoves | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 shoves | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | present | the exhaust | on the road; behind, hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on road=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shove on | present | the exhaust not said here | the car | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=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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