Test 4 · Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard

wipers came on by themselves, is the car haunted lol?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wipers, car · What happens: come on, be

This is test 4 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wipers	wiper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADV	_	2 came	advmod
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 themselves	case
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 came	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 haunted	punct
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 haunted	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 car	det
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 haunted	nsubj
10	haunted	haunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	10 haunted	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come on	past	wipers					by wipers = wiper	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by themselves=Location
2	is	present	the car					haunt 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, cars can't do that alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 do	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 do	advmod
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 do	obj
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	6 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	can	cars	that				alone property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, a rain sensor switched them on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 switched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sensor	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sensor	compound
5	sensor	sensor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 switched	nsubj
6	switched	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 switched	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	6 switched	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch on	past	a rain sensor	them = they					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

Yes, the radio did it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 radio	det
4	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the radio	it					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4

No, the driver's foot pressed them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 pressed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pressed	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 driver	det
4	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 foot	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 driver	case
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pressed	nsubj
7	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pressed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past	the driver's foot	them = they					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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