Test 4 · ★ · How a car is built

What would happen if a speck of dust landed on a car while it was being painted?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: speck · What happens: happen, land, paint · To what, where: car, speck

This is test 4 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 landed	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 speck	det
6	speck	speck	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 landed	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 dust	case
8	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 speck	nmod
9	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 happen	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 car	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 car	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 landed	obl
13	while	while	SCONJ	_	17 painted	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 painted	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 painted	aux:pass
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 painted	aux:pass
17	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 landed	advcl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	happen	would				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	land a condition, not said to happen	participle	a speck of dust		a car	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on car=Destination
3	paint	past · passive		speck		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

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

It would make the whole car rust at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rust	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 rust	amod
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rust	compound
7	rust	rust	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	the whole car rust					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material rust=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It would show as a bump in the paint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 show	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 show	aux
3	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 bump	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bump	det
6	bump	bump	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 paint	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 paint	det
9	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 show	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	would	It			the paint		as a bump	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It would make the paint shinier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 make	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 make	aux
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 paint	det
5	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	shinier	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	would	It	the paint				shiny property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material paint=Product

Option 4

It would be painted over and vanish for good

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 painted	nsubj:pass
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 painted	aux:pass
4	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	over	over	ADV	_	4 painted	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 vanish	cc
7	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 painted	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 good	case
9	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint over	would · passive		It				for good; over property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Result for good=Beneficiary
2	vanish	present							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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