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Test 11 · ★ · How a car is built

In a cartoon a giant press squashes a cat flat and it pops back up. What is the real rule?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant press, press, real rule · What happens: squash, pop, be · To what, where: cat, cartoon

This is test 11 · ★ 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: In a cartoon a giant press squashes a cat flat and it pops back up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squashes	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 press	det
5	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 press	amod
6	press	press	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squashes	nsubj
7	squashes	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cat	det
9	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 squashes	obj
10	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 squashes	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 pops	cc
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 pops	nsubj
13	pops	pop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 squashes	conj
14	back	back	ADV	_	15 up	advmod
15	up	up	ADV	_	13 pops	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 squashes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	present	a giant press	a cat		a cartoon		flat property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cat=Theme in cartoon=Trajectory
2	pop	present	press						vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 the real rule?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rule	det
4	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rule	amod
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the real rule						tree rules

The options

Option 1

Presses are soft inside and can't hurt anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Presses	press	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 soft	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 soft	cop
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	inside	inside	ADV	_	3 soft	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
6	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hurt	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hurt	advmod
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 soft	conj
9	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Presses					inside, soft property	tree rules
2	not hurt	can	Presses not said here	anyone					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anyone=Patient

Option 2

Presses only squash cardboard, never anything solid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Presses	press	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 squash	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 squash	advmod
3	squash	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cardboard	cardboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 squash	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 anything	punct
6	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 anything	advmod
7	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 squash	obl
8	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 anything	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	present	Presses	cardboard				anything obl	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cardboard=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Presses are fenced off and stop if a light beam is broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Presses	press	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fenced	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fenced	aux:pass
3	fenced	fence	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 fenced	compound:prt
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 stop	cc
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fenced	conj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 broken	mark
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 beam	det
9	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 beam	compound
10	beam	beam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 broken	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 broken	aux:pass
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fence off	present · passive		Presses					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	stop	infinitive							vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	break a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		a light beam					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Workers stand under the presses to check them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stand	nsubj
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	under	under	ADP	_	5 presses	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 presses	det
5	presses	press	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stand	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 check	mark
7	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 stand	advcl
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 check	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	Workers			the presses			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under press=Location
2	check	to-infinitive	Workers not said here	Workers = worker					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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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