Test 4 · ★ · Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags
A baby seat facing backwards is put in the front seat with the airbag on. Is it safe?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: baby seat, seat · What happens: face, put on, be · To what, where: baby seat, front seat
This is test 4 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A baby seat facing backwards is put in the front seat with the airbag on.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 seat | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seat | compound |
| 3 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 seat | acl |
| 5 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 4 facing | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 put | aux:pass |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 seat | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seat | det |
| 10 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seat | amod |
| 11 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 airbag | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 airbag | det |
| 14 | airbag | airbag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 put | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 put | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | gerund | a baby seat not said here | backwards property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | put on | present · passive | a baby seat | the front seat | with the airbag | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in seat=Destination |
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: Is it safe?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 safe | cop |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 safe | nsubj |
| 3 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 safe | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | seat | safe property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Yes, the airbag will protect the baby
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 protect | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 airbag | det |
| 4 | airbag | airbag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 protect | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 protect | aux |
| 6 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 baby | det |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 protect | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | future | the airbag | the baby | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Beneficiary |
Option 2
Yes, the front seat is the safest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 safest | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 seat | det |
| 4 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 seat | amod |
| 5 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 safest | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 safest | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 safest | det |
| 8 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the front seat | safe property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, a rear-facing baby seat never goes in front of an active airbag
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 seat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 seat | det |
| 4 | rear | rear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 facing | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 rear | punct |
| 6 | facing | face | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 seat | amod |
| 7 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 seat | compound |
| 8 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 goes | advmod |
| 10 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 goes | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 airbag | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 airbag | det |
| 15 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 airbag | amod |
| 16 | airbag | airbag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | gerund | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not go | present | a facing baby seat | front of a active airbag | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in front=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
No, babies must face forwards
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 face | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 face | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 face | aux |
| 5 | face | face | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | forwards | forwards | ADV | _ | 5 face | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | face | must | babies | forwards property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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