Test 1 · ★ · How a car is built

«robots build the whole car, no people at all, right?» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: robots · What happens: build, be · To what, where: whole car

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 8 «How a car is built» 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

Sentence 1: «robots build the whole car, no people at all, right?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	3 build	punct
2	robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 build	nsubj
3	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 car	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 car	amod
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 build	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 people	punct
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 people	det
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 car	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 people	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 build	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	3 build	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 build	punct
15	»	»	PUNCT	_	3 build	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build in a quote	present	robots	the whole car and no people at all					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset car=Product

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.

Sentence 2: What is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

No, people still build cars entirely by hand with no machines

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 build	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	nsubj
4	still	still	ADV	_	5 build	advmod
5	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	obj
7	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	5 build	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 hand	case
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 build	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 machines	case
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 machines	det
12	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	present	people	cars			still	by hand; with no machines; entirely property	vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent car=Theme with machine=Source

Option 2

Robots only carry the coffee and post around there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 carry	advmod
3	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coffee	det
5	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 post	cc
7	post	post	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coffee	conj
8	around	around	ADV	_	9 there	advmod
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Robots	the coffee and post		there			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Theme

Option 3

Yes, not one person works in any car factory any more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 works	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 works	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 works	advmod
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 person	nummod
5	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	nsubj
6	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 factory	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 factory	det
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 factory	compound
10	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 works	obl
11	any	any	ADV	_	12 more	advmod
12	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 works	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	present	one person					in any car factory	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in factory=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Robots do much welding and painting, but people still build and check

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Robots	robot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 do	nsubj
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 welding	amod
4	welding	welding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 do	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 painting	cc
6	painting	painting	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 welding	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 build	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 build	cc
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 build	nsubj
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 build	advmod
11	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 do	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 check	cc
13	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 do	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	present	Robots	much welding and painting		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent welding=Eventuality
2	build	present	people		still	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	check	present	Robots not said here			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: 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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