Test 6 · Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard

Why do bikes and cars both have gears?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: bikes · What happens: do, have · To what, where: gears

This is test 6 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 have	advcl
3	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cars	cc
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bikes	conj
6	both	both	ADV	_	7 have	advmod
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	bikes and cars not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	bikes and cars	gears				both property	vn birth-28.2-1 «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

Gears are only for racing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 racing	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 racing	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 racing	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 racing	case
5	racing	racing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Gears					for racing	tree rules

Option 2

To make them look complicated

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 make	obj
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
5	complicated	complicated	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		them = they					tree rules
2	look	infinitive	them = they not said here					complicated property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

To make the chain longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 chain	det
4	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the chain					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chain=Product

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Low gears help start and climb, high gears go fast easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gears	amod
2	gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	nsubj
3	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	start	start	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 help	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 climb	cc
6	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 start	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 gears	amod
9	gears	gear	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 help	conj
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 go	advmod
12	easily	easily	ADV	_	10 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	help	present	Low gears		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	start	infinitive	Low gears not said here		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	climb	infinitive	Low gears not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	go	present	high gears	easily, fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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