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Test 11 · ★★★ · Electric cars and charging

A hybrid glides past the school silently, then the engine starts on the hill. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hybrid, engine · What happens: glide, start · To what, where: school, hill

This is test 11 · ★★★ 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: A hybrid glides past the school silently, then the engine starts on the hill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hybrid	det
2	hybrid	hybrid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glides	nsubj
3	glides	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 school	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 school	det
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glides	obl
7	silently	silently	ADV	_	3 glides	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 starts	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 starts	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 engine	det
11	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 starts	nsubj
12	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 glides	conj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 hill	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 hill	det
15	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 starts	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 glides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide	present	a hybrid			the school		silently property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past school=Trajectory
2	start	present	the engine			the hill	then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The engine was asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 engine	det
2	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asleep	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the engine					asleep property	tree rules

Option 2

The hill switched it on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hill	det
2	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 switched	nsubj
3	switched	switch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 switched	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 switched	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	switch on	past	the hill	it					vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

It used the electric motor, then the petrol engine for more power

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 used	nsubj
2	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 motor	det
4	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 motor	amod
5	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 engine	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 engine	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 engine	det
9	petrol	petrol	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 engine	compound
10	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 used	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 power	case
12	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 power	amod
13	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 engine	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past	It	the electric motor				the petrol engine for more power obl	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motor=Patient

Option 4

The driver honked by mistake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 driver	det
2	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	honked	honk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 driver	acl
4	by	by	ADP	_	5 mistake	case
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 honked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honk	participle		the driver not said here				by mistake	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by mistake=Location

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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