Test 3 · ★★ · Satellites and GPS

«sat nav says turn left into the river, it must be right» What is the right answer?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: nav · What happens: sit, say, turn, leave, be · To what, where: river, right answer · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 38 «Satellites and GPS» 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	_	2 sat	punct
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nav	nav	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 says	nsubj
4	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sat	ccomp
5	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 says	ccomp
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 says	xcomp
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 right	nsubj
12	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 right	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sat	parataxis
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	14 right	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 sat	obj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answer	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 answer	det
19	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 answer	amod
20	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 What	acl:relcl
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit in a quote	past				tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	present	nav			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	turn in a quote	present				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	leave in a quote	participle	nav not said here		into the river result	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into river=Result
5	is in a quote	must	nav		right property	tree rules
6	be speech: assert	present		the right answer		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

Switch the sat nav off and on again, and if it still says left, then turn left

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Switch	switch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nav	det
3	sat	sat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nav	compound
4	nav	nav	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Switch	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	1 Switch	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 on	cc
7	on	on	ADV	_	1 Switch	conj
8	again	again	ADV	_	1 Switch	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 turn	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 turn	cc
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 says	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 says	nsubj
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 says	advmod
14	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 turn	advcl
15	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 says	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 says	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 turn	advmod
18	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Switch	conj
19	left	left	ADV	_	18 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	switch off	imperative	you not said here	the sat nav	again		vn convert-26.6.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nav=Patient
2	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	nav		still		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	leave	participle	nav not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	turn	infinitive	you not said here		then	left property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Sat navs are never wrong, so turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	navs	nav	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wrong	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 wrong	cop
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 wrong	advmod
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sat	parataxis
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turn	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 turn	advmod
8	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sit	past			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	navs	wrong property	tree rules
3	turn	infinitive			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Drive in slowly to check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Drive	advmod
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Drive	advmod
4	to	to	PART	_	5 check	mark
5	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Drive	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive in	imperative	you not said here					slowly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	check	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

The driver must watch the road and not follow a 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	4 watch	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 watch	aux
4	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watch	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 follow	cc
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 follow	advmod
9	follow	follow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 watch	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 mistake	det
11	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 follow	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	must	the driver	the road					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
2	not follow	infinitive	the driver not said here	a mistake					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=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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