Test 9 · ★ · Diggers, cranes and cement mixers

«a monster truck at the mine had tyres taller than my dad» Could that be true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: monster truck, that · What happens: have, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 28 «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 truck	det
3	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 truck	compound
4	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 had	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 mine	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mine	det
7	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 truck	nmod
8	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 true	csubj
9	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 taller	nsubj
10	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 had	xcomp
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 dad	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dad	nmod:poss
13	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taller	obl
14	»	»	PUNCT	_	8 had	punct
15	Could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 true	aux
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 true	nsubj
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 true	cop
18	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	past	a monster truck at the mine					tall property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	could	that					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

No, no tyre is taller than a bike wheel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 taller	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 taller	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 tyre	det
4	tyre	tyre	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taller	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 taller	cop
6	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 wheel	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wheel	det
9	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wheel	compound
10	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	no tyre					than a bike wheel; tall property	tree rules

Option 2

No, mine trucks have no tyres, only tracks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
3	mine	mine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trucks	compound
4	trucks	truck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 tyres	det
7	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 tracks	punct
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 tracks	advmod
10	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tyres	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	mine trucks	no tyres and tracks					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient

Option 3

Only in films

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 films	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 films	case
3	films	film	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

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

Yes, the biggest mining dump trucks have tyres taller than an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trucks	det
4	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 trucks	amod
5	mining	mining	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dump	compound
6	dump	dump	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trucks	compound
7	trucks	truck	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
10	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 have	xcomp
11	than	than	ADP	_	13 adult	case
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 adult	det
13	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 taller	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the biggest dump trucks	tyres				tall property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient

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