Exam question 1 · Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags

Identify the principal function of a crumple zone in a motor vehicle.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: identify · To what, where: principal function

This is exam question 1 of lesson 18 «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 function	det
3	principal	principal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 function	amod
4	function	function	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 zone	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 zone	det
7	crumple	crumple	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 zone	compound
8	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 function	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 vehicle	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 vehicle	det
11	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vehicle	compound
12	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 zone	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the principal function of a crumple zone in a motor vehicle					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent function=Theme

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

The reduction of the cost of manufacture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 reduction	det
2	reduction	reduction	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 cost	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cost	det
5	cost	cost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reduction	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 manufacture	case
7	manufacture	manufacture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cost	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce			the cost of manufacture					nom reduction «act transitive»: of=patient
2	cost			manufacture					nom cost «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

The improvement of the vehicle's appearance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 improvement	det
2	improvement	improvement	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 appearance	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 vehicle	det
5	vehicle	vehicle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 appearance	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 vehicle	case
7	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 improvement	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	improve		the vehicle's appearance						nom improvement «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 3

The provision of additional storage space

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 provision	det
2	provision	provision	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 space	case
4	additional	additional	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 space	amod
5	storage	storage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 space	compound
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 provision	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	provide		additional storage space						nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The absorption of energy so that occupants are decelerated more gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 absorption	det
2	absorption	absorption	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 decelerated	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 energy	case
4	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 absorption	nmod
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 decelerated	mark
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 decelerated	mark
7	occupants	occupant	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 decelerated	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 decelerated	aux:pass
9	decelerated	decelerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 decelerated	advmod
11	gently	gently	ADV	_	9 decelerated	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	decelerate	present · passive		the absorption of energy				gently property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	absorb			energy					nom absorption «process transitive»: of=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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