Test 7 · Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard
shut up and get out the car, I'm doing the petrol. Where do you wait?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, I · What happens: shut up, get out, do, wait · To what, where: car, petrol
This is test 7 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: shut up and get out the car, I'm doing the petrol.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 shut | compound:prt |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 get | cc |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 shut | conj |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 car | det |
| 7 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 doing | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 doing | nsubj |
| 10 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 doing | aux |
| 11 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 shut | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 petrol | det |
| 13 | petrol | petrol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doing | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 shut | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | imperative | you not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get out | infinitive | you not said here | the car | out property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | do | present · progressive | I | the petrol | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent petrol=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.
Sentence 2: Where do you wait?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 wait | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · do-support | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Under the pump, where it's cool in the shade
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 pump | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pump | det |
| 3 | pump | pump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cool | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pump | punct |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 cool | advmod |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cool | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cool | cop |
| 8 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 shade | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shade | det |
| 11 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cool | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | pump | the pump | in the shade; cool property | tree rules |
Option 2
Next to the nozzle to help
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADV | _ | 4 nozzle | advmod |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 nozzle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nozzle | det |
| 4 | nozzle | nozzle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 help | mark |
| 6 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 nozzle | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | to-infinitive | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
On your phone by the pump
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 phone | case |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 phone | nmod:poss |
| 3 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 pump | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pump | det |
| 6 | pump | pump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 phone | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Away from the pumps, or in the car
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Away | away | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 pumps | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pumps | det |
| 4 | pumps | pump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Away | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 car | punct |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 car | cc |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 car | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 car | det |
| 9 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pumps | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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