Test 3 · ★ · Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags

What would happen to an unbelted passenger if the car stopped suddenly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: car · What happens: happen, unbelt, stop

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 18 «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 passenger	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 passenger	det
6	unbelted	unbelt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 passenger	amod
7	passenger	passenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 happen	obl
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 stopped	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 car	det
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stopped	nsubj
11	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	advcl
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	11 stopped	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	happen	would		to a unbelted passenger	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	unbelt	participle			tree rules
3	stop a condition, not said to happen	past	the car	suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They would keep going forward and hit the inside of the car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 keep	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp
5	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 going	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hit	cc
7	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keep	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 inside	det
9	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hit	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 car	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 car	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inside	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	would	They			tree rules
2	go	gerund	They not said here		forward property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hit	infinitive	They not said here	the inside of the car		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme inside=Co-Theme

Option 2

Nothing, cars stop gently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 stop	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stop	nsubj
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	cars					Nothing vocative; gently property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

They would stop at exactly the same moment as the car, safe in the seat

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	8 moment	case
5	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 moment	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moment	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 moment	amod
8	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obl
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 car	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 car	det
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 safe	punct
13	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 car	amod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 seat	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 seat	det
16	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	They				moment	as the car	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

They would be pushed back into the seat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pushed	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 pushed	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 pushed	aux:pass
4	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 pushed	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 seat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seat	det
8	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push back	would · passive		They		the seat			vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into seat=Destination

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