Test 3 · ★ · How a car is built

«windscreen got hit by a stone, cracked like a web but didn't fall in, weird» Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: stone · What happens: hit, crack, not fall in · To what, where: windscreen

This is test 3 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
2	windscreen	windscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux:pass
4	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 stone	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cracked	punct
9	cracked	crack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hit	conj
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 web	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 web	det
12	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cracked	obl
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 fall	cc
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fall	aux
15	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 fall	advmod
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hit	conj
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 fall	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 weird	punct
19	weird	weird	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fall	conj
20	»	»	PUNCT	_	16 fall	punct
21	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hit	advmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hit in a quote	past · passive	a stone	windscreen		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme
2	crack in a quote	participle	a stone not said here		like a web	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not fall in in a quote	past · do-support	a stone not said here			vn occur-48.3 «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 · ← Mova's choice

The stone was too small to really hurt the glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stone	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 small	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 hurt	mark
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 hurt	advmod
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 small	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 glass	det
10	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hurt	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the stone					small property	tree rules
2	hurt	to-infinitive	the stone not said here	the glass					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer glass=Patient

Option 2

The windscreen is not real glass, just thin plastic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 windscreen	det
2	windscreen	windscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glass	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 glass	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 glass	advmod
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 glass	amod
6	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plastic	punct
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 thin	advmod
9	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plastic	amod
10	plastic	plastic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	the windscreen	real glass and thin plastic					tree rules

Option 3

The glass was frozen at the time, so it held

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 glass	det
2	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frozen	aux:pass
4	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 frozen	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 held	advmod
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 held	nsubj
11	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 frozen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	freeze	past · passive		the glass			time		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result
2	hold	past	glass						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The plastic layer between two sheets of glass holds the pieces

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 layer	det
2	plastic	plastic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 layer	amod
3	layer	layer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 holds	nsubj
4	between	between	ADP	_	6 sheets	case
5	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 sheets	nummod
6	sheets	sheet	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 layer	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 glass	case
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sheets	nmod
9	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 pieces	det
11	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 holds	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	the plastic layer between two sheets of glass	the pieces					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme

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