Test 7 · ★ · Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags

mate says a crumpled car after a crash means it was badly made. true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, crash · What happens: say, crumple, mean, make · To what, where: crumpled car, crash · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 car	det
4	crumpled	crumple	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 car	amod
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 says	obj
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 means	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crash	det
8	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 means	nsubj
9	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj:pass
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	aux:pass
12	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 made	advmod
13	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 means	ccomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 true	punct
15	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 says	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	mate	a crumpled car		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent car=Topic
2	crumple	participle				vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	mean	present	a crash			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	make	past · passive		crash	badly property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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

No, crumpled cars are always made of paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	crumpled	crumple	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cars	amod
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 made	aux:pass
6	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 made	advmod
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 paper	case
9	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 made	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crumple	participle							vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	make	present · passive		crumpled cars				of paper; always property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Not necessarily; crumpling often means it did its job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 necessarily	advmod
2	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	_	6 means	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 necessarily	punct
4	crumpling	crumpling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 means	nsubj
5	often	often	ADV	_	6 means	advmod
6	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 did	nsubj
8	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 means	ccomp
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 job	nmod:poss
10	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	crumpling		necessarily, often property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	do	past	crumpling	crumpling's job		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
3	job		crumpling			nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Yes, crumpling hurts the people inside more than a stiff car would

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 crumpling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	crumpling	crumpling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hurts	nsubj
4	hurts	hurt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 people	det
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hurts	obj
7	inside	inside	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hurts	advmod
9	than	than	ADP	_	12 car	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 car	det
11	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 car	amod
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 more	obl
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hurts	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present	crumpling	the people					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Patient

Option 4

Yes, good cars never dent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 dent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cars	amod
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dent	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 dent	advmod
6	dent	dent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dent	present	good cars						vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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