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Test 5 · ★★★ · Electric cars and charging

A car slows down without the driver touching the brake pedal, and the battery number goes up. What happened?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car, driver, battery number · What happens: slow down, touch, go up, happen · To what, where: brake pedal

This is test 5 · ★★★ 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 car slows down without the driver touching the brake pedal, and the battery number goes up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slows	nsubj
3	slows	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 slows	compound:prt
5	without	without	ADP	_	7 driver	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 driver	det
7	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slows	obl
8	touching	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 driver	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pedal	det
10	brake	brake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pedal	compound
11	pedal	pedal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touching	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 goes	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 goes	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 number	det
15	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 number	compound
16	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 goes	nsubj
17	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 slows	conj
18	up	up	ADP	_	17 goes	compound:prt
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 slows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	present	a car					without the driver	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	touch	gerund	the driver not said here	the brake pedal					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pedal=Co-Theme
3	go up	present	the battery number						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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 happened?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happened	nsubj
2	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The battery magically refilled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 battery	det
2	battery	battery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	magically	magically	ADV	_	4 refilled	advmod
4	refilled	refill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 battery	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refill	participle		the battery not said here				magically property	tree rules

Option 2

The car found a hidden charger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 charger	det
5	hidden	hidden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 charger	amod
6	charger	charger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	the car	a hidden charger					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charger=Topic

Option 3

The driver turned the radio off

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	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 radio	det
5	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	3 turned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn off	past	the driver	the radio					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent radio=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Regenerative braking turned movement back into electricity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Regenerative	Regenerative	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 braking	compound
2	braking	braking	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	nsubj
3	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	movement	movement	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 turned	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	7 electricity	case
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn back	past	Regenerative braking	movement		electricity			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme

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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