Test 11 · ★★ · Toys and Lego

«my mate's RC car keeps driving off when I use my remote» What is the likely reason?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, I · What happens: keep, drive off, use, be · To what, where: remote, likely reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★★ of lesson 7 «Toys and Lego» 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	_	7 keeps	punct
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mate	nmod:poss
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keeps	nsubj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 mate	case
5	RC	RC	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 mate	appos
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mate	conj
7	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keeps	xcomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 driving	compound:prt
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 use	mark
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 use	nsubj
12	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 keeps	advcl
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 remote	nmod:poss
14	remote	remote	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 use	obj
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 use	punct
16	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 reason	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 reason	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 reason	det
19	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 reason	amod
20	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 use	parataxis
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep in a quote	present	my mate and car		tree rules
2	drive off in a quote	gerund	my mate and car not said here		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	use in a quote	present	I	my remote	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent remote=Theme clause=Eventuality
4	is a	present		the likely reason	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Both cars are on the same radio channel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	2 cars	det
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 channel	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 channel	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 channel	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 channel	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 channel	amod
7	radio	radio	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 channel	compound
8	channel	channel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	both cars			the same radio channel			tree rules

Option 2

My remote is far too strong for his little car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 remote	nmod:poss
2	remote	remote	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strong	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	cop
4	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 strong	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 strong	advmod
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 car	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 car	nmod:poss
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 car	amod
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strong	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	My remote					for his little car; far, strong property	tree rules

Option 3

Our batteries swapped over when we weren't looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 batteries	nmod:poss
2	batteries	battery	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swapped	nsubj
3	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	3 swapped	compound:prt
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	9 looking	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 looking	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 looking	aux
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 looking	advmod
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 swapped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap over	participle	Our batteries						vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme
2	not look	past · progressive	we						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

His car is haunted and drives off on its own

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 car	nmod:poss
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 haunted	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 haunted	aux:pass
4	haunted	haunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drives	cc
6	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 haunted	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 drives	compound:prt
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 own	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 own	nmod:poss
10	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 drives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	haunt	present · passive		His car					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	drive off	present				car's own			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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