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Test 10 · ★★★ · Electric cars and charging

In a cartoon an electric car's battery lasts for ever without charging. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: battery · What happens: last, charge, be · To what, where: cartoon

This is test 10 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «Electric cars and charging» 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: In a cartoon an electric car's battery lasts for ever without charging.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lasts	obl
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
5	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 car	amod
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 battery	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 car	case
8	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lasts	nsubj
9	lasts	last	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	for	for	SCONJ	_	13 charging	mark
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	13 charging	advmod
12	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 charging	mark
13	charging	charge	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 lasts	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lasts	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	last	present	a electric car's battery			a cartoon			vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	charge	gerund	a electric car's battery not said here				ever		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

It charges from sunshine through the roof only

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 charges	nsubj
2	charges	charge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 sunshine	case
4	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charges	obl
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 roof	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roof	det
7	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 charges	obl
8	only	only	ADV	_	2 charges	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	present	It			sunshine		through the roof	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sunshine=Trajectory

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It must be charged; its range runs out

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	4 charged	nsubj:pass
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 charged	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 charged	aux:pass
4	charged	charge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 runs	advcl
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	4 charged	punct
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 range	nmod:poss
7	range	range	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 runs	nsubj
8	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 runs	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	charge	must · passive		It					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	run out	present	its range						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It runs on air once the battery is flat

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 air	case
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 runs	obl
5	once	once	SCONJ	_	9 flat	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 battery	det
7	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flat	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 flat	cop
9	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 runs	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	It			air			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on air=Trajectory
2	is	present	the battery					flat property	tree rules

Option 4

Batteries never empty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 empty	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 empty	advmod
3	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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