Test 7 · ★ · How a car is built

«car factory makes like 1 car a week tops» What is right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: car factory · What happens: make, be · To what, where: week tops · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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 makes	punct
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 factory	compound
3	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	nsubj
4	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 car	case
6	1	1	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	7 car	nummod
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 makes	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tops	det
9	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tops	compound
10	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 makes	obj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct
12	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 right	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 right	cop
14	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 makes	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 makes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make in a quote	present	car factory	a week tops				like 1 car	tree rules
2	is	present						right property	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

It takes a whole year of work to finish each car

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	2 takes	nsubj
2	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 year	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 year	amod
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 takes	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 work	case
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 year	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 finish	mark
9	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 takes	advcl
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 car	det
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 finish	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present	It				year		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	finish	to-infinitive		each car					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality car=Eventuality

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

A modern factory can finish a car about every minute or two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 factory	det
2	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 factory	amod
3	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finish	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 finish	aux
5	finish	finish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finish	obj
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 minute	advmod
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 minute	det
10	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finish	obl:unmarked
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 two	cc
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 minute	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	finish	can	a modern factory	a car			minute		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality car=Eventuality

Option 3

A thousand cars roll out of every factory every single minute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cars	det
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 cars	nummod
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 roll	nsubj
4	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 factory	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 factory	case
7	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 factory	det
8	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roll	obl
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 minute	det
10	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 minute	amod
11	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roll	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll out	present	a thousand cars	every factory			minute		vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location factory=Theme

Option 4

Yes, one car a week is the most any factory can do

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 factory	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 car	nummod
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 factory	nsubj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 week	det
6	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 car	nmod:unmarked
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 factory	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 factory	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 factory	advmod
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 factory	det
11	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	one car a week	the factory					tree rules
2	do	can	the factory						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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