Test 1 · ★★ · Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves

«the car drives itself so i can just walk out in front, it'll stop» What is the right rule?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car, i · What happens: drive, walk out, stop, be · To what, where: car, front, right rule · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 40 «Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves» 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	_	4 drives	punct
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 car	det
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drives	nsubj
4	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 walk	advcl
5	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 drives	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 walk	advmod
7	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 walk	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 walk	aux
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 walk	advmod
10	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	out	out	ADV	_	10 walk	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 front	case
13	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 walk	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 stop	punct
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stop	nsubj
16	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 stop	aux
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 walk	parataxis
18	»	»	PUNCT	_	17 stop	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 rule	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rule	cop
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 rule	det
22	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 rule	amod
23	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stop	parataxis
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 walk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive in a quote	present	the car	car			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme itself=Trajectory
2	walk out in a quote	can	i		front	out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stop in a quote	future	car				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	is a	present		the right rule			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

Walk out only in front of robotaxis

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 front	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 robotaxis	case
7	robotaxis	robotaxi	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk out	imperative	you not said here			front of robotaxis		out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Walk out if you wave at the car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 wave	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 wave	nsubj
5	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	advcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 car	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk out	imperative	you not said here					out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wave a condition, not said to happen	present	you			the car			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at car=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Self-driving cars always stop, so walk out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 driving	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Self	punct
3	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 cars	amod
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 stop	advmod
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walk	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 walk	advmod
9	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	conj
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	drive	gerund			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	stop	present	driving cars	always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	walk out	infinitive	driving cars not said here	out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Always cross safely: stop, look and listen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 cross	advmod
2	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	safely	safely	ADV	_	2 cross	advmod
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 cross	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 look	punct
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 cross	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 listen	cc
9	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 look	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cross	imperative	you not said here	always, safely property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	infinitive	you not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	look	infinitive	you not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	listen	infinitive	you not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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