Test 9 · Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard

Which is true about a car engine?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 9 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	7 engine	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 engine	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 engine	compound
7	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a car engine; true 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 · ← Mova's choice

It runs on water from the windscreen washer bottle

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 runs	nsubj
2	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 water	case
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runs	obl
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 bottle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bottle	det
7	windscreen	windscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 washer	compound
8	washer	washer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bottle	compound
9	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	It			water		from the washer bottle	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on water=Trajectory

Option 2

It is cold inside while running

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 cold	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cold	cop
3	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 cold	advmod
5	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 running	mark
6	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 cold	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					cold, inside property	tree rules
2	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Many small explosions happen inside it every second

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 explosions	amod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 explosions	amod
3	explosions	explosion	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 happen	nsubj
4	happen	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	inside	inside	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 happen	obl
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 second	det
8	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 happen	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present	Many small explosions			it	second		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme inside it=Location

Option 4

It only works when it rains

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 works	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 works	advmod
3	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 rains	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rains	nsubj
6	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 works	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	It						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rain	present	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.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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