Test 6 · Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights

Which is true about lorries?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 6 of lesson 20 «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 lorries	case
5	lorries	lorry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

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

They can stop faster than bikes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 stop	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 bikes	case
6	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	can	They					fast property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

They never have blind spots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 have	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spots	amod
5	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	present	They	blind spots					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Patient

Option 3

They are lighter than a family car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 lighter	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lighter	cop
3	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	7 car	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 car	compound
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					than a family car; light property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They need a very long way to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 need	nsubj
2	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 long	advmod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 need	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 way	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	They	a long way					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot way=Theme
2	stop	to-infinitive	They not said here	a long way not said here					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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