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Test 8 · ★ · How a car is built

«saw them hosing new cars at the factory, are they just mucky?» What is most likely?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: them, cars · What happens: see, hose, be · To what, where: them, new cars, factory

This is test 8 · ★ 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: «saw them hosing new cars at the factory, are they just mucky?»

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	hosing	hose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 saw	xcomp
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cars	amod
6	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hosing	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 factory	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 factory	det
9	factory	factory	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hosing	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mucky	punct
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 mucky	cop
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 mucky	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 mucky	advmod
14	mucky	mucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 saw	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 mucky	punct
16	»	»	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see in a quote	past		them = they					tree rules
2	hose in a quote	gerund	them = they not said here	new cars		the factory			vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent car=Initial_Location
3	is in a quote	present	cars = car					mucky 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.

Sentence 2: What is most likely?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The cars are being painted with coloured water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cars	det
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 painted	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 painted	aux:pass
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 painted	aux:pass
5	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	coloured	coloured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 painted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	present · passive		the cars				with coloured water	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with water=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It is a rain booth test for leaks

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	6 test	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 test	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 test	det
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 test	compound
5	booth	booth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 test	compound
6	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 leaks	case
8	leaks	leak	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 test	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	It	a rain booth test				for leaks	tree rules

Option 3

The water cools the hot engines down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cools	nsubj
3	cools	cool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 engines	det
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 engines	amod
6	engines	engine	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cools	obj
7	down	down	ADV	_	3 cools	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	present	the water	the hot engines				down property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent engine=Patient

Option 4

They are washed to look nice for the shop window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 washed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 washed	aux:pass
3	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 washed	advcl
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 window	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 window	det
9	shop	shop	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 window	compound
10	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	present · passive		They					vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	look	to-infinitive						for the shop window; nice property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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