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Test 8 · Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights

Grandad says a full lorry weighs as much as two cars. Is he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Grandad, full lorry, lorry · What happens: say, weigh, be · To what, where: much · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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

Sentence 1: Grandad says a full lorry weighs as much as two cars.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grandad	Grandad	PROPN	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 lorry	det
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lorry	amod
5	lorry	lorry	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 weighs	nsubj
6	weighs	weigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
7	as	as	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weighs	obj
9	as	as	ADP	_	11 cars	case
10	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 cars	nummod
11	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 much	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Grandad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	weigh	present	a full lorry	much					vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme much=Value

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: Is he right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, as much as about thirty cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 much	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	8 cars	case
6	about	about	ADV	_	7 thirty	advmod
7	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 cars	nummod
8	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 much	obl

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

Option 2

Yes, lorries are light because they're hollow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 light	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	lorries	lorry	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 light	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 light	cop
5	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 hollow	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hollow	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hollow	cop
9	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 light	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	lorries					light property	tree rules
2	is	present	lorries = lorry					hollow property	tree rules

Option 3

No, only about as much as one bike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 much	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
4	about	about	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 bike	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 bike	nummod
9	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 much	nmod

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

Option 4

Yes, exactly two cars, give or take

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	4 two	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 cars	nummod
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 give	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 take	cc
9	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 give	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	infinitive	two cars						vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	take	infinitive	two cars not said here						vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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