Test 11 · ★★ · Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves

Look back over the course: what do a power station, a phone and a robot vacuum all need to run?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, robot vacuum · What happens: look back, do, need, run · To what, where: power station

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 course	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 course	det
5	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
8	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	parataxis
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 station	det
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 station	compound
11	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 phone	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 phone	det
14	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 station	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 vacuum	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 vacuum	det
17	robot	robot	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 vacuum	compound
18	vacuum	vacuum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 station	conj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 need	advmod
20	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 vacuum	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 run	mark
22	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 need	xcomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look back	imperative	you not said here		over the course	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over course=Theme
2	do	present		a power station and a phone and a robot vacuum		tree rules
3	need	present	a robot vacuum not said here			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	a robot vacuum not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Nothing, they run by magic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 run	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 run	nsubj
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	6 magic	case
6	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	they					by magic; Nothing vocative	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by magic=Trajectory

Option 2

Only good weather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 weather	advmod
2	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 weather	amod
3	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A person pushing them all day long, taking turns with a friend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 person	det
2	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushing	nsubj
3	pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pushing	obj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushing	obl:unmarked
7	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 pushing	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 taking	punct
9	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pushing	conj
10	turns	turn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 taking	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 friend	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 friend	det
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund	a person	them = they			day	long property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	take	gerund	a person not said here	turns				with a friend	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme

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

Energy, and parts that follow rules people designed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 parts	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 parts	cc
4	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Energy	appos
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 follow	nsubj
6	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 parts	acl:relcl
7	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 follow	obj
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 follow	obj
9	designed	design	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 follow	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	follow	present	parts	rules					tree rules
2	design	participle	parts not said here						vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: 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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