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Test 8 · Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard

A car in front has a white light on at the back. What does it mean?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car · What happens: have on, mean · To what, where: white light, back

This is test 8 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: A car in front has a white light on at the back.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 front	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 car	nmod
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 light	det
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	5 has	compound:prt
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 back	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 back	det
12	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have on	present	a car in front	a white light		the back			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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.

Sentence 2: What does it mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	car						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1

It is parked there for ever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 parked	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 parked	aux:pass
3	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 parked	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 ever	case
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	3 parked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	park	present · passive		It		there			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It wants to turn left next

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 turn	mark
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	left	left	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
6	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turn	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	turn not said to happen	to-infinitive						left, next property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It is about to brake hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 brake	mark
5	brake	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 brake	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about property	tree rules
2	break	to-infinitive						hard property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is about to reverse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 about	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 about	cop
3	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 reverse	mark
5	reverse	reverse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 about	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					about property	tree rules
2	reverse	to-infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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