Test 4 · ★★ · Self-driving cars and machines that run themselves

«machine ate my coin, rock it till it drops» What should you do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: machine, you, my · What happens: eat, drop, do, coin · To what, where: coin

This is test 4 · ★★ 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	_	3 ate	punct
2	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 coin	nmod:poss
5	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rock	punct
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coin	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	obj
9	till	till	SCONJ	_	11 drops	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 drops	nsubj
11	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 ate	advcl
12	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct
13	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 do	obj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 ate	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat in a quote	past	machine	my coin and rock	tree rules
2	drop in a quote	present	machine		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	do	should	you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
4	coin in a quote		my		nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent

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 · ← Mova's choice

Climb on it to reach the snack

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Climb	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 reach	mark
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Climb	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snack	det
7	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here			it			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory
2	reach	to-infinitive	you not said here	the snack					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent snack=Theme

Option 2

Rock it gently from the side, just a little bit, until the coin drops out

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rock	rock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Rock	obj
3	gently	gently	ADV	_	1 Rock	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Rock	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bit	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	11 bit	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bit	det
10	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bit	amod
11	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 side	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 drops	punct
13	until	until	SCONJ	_	16 drops	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 coin	det
15	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drops	nsubj
16	drops	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Rock	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 drops	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rock	imperative	you not said here	it		the side		gently property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	drop out	present	the coin						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Never rock it; tell a shop worker or an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 rock	advmod
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rock	nsubj
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 rock	punct
5	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 worker	det
7	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worker	compound
8	worker	worker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 adult	cc
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 adult	det
11	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 worker	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not rock		rock						tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	a shop worker or a adult					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent worker=Recipient

Option 4

Tip it forward a little

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tip	tip	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tip	obj
3	forward	forward	ADV	_	1 Tip	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 little	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tip	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip	imperative	you not said here	it				a little obl:unmarked; forward property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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