Test 7 · ★ · Air and why we need it

Why must a car engine have air coming in?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: car engine · What happens: come in

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 17 «Air and why we need it» of the world 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 coming	advmod
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 engine	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 engine	compound
5	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coming	nsubj
6	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	aux
7	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coming	nsubj
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	in	in	ADV	_	8 coming	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 coming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	must	a car engine						vn escape-51.1-1 «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

The air keeps the seats nice and cool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 air	det
2	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 seats	det
5	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keeps	obj
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 keeps	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 cool	cc
8	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nice	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	the air	the seats				nice property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Theme

Option 2

The engine runs on nitrogen gas

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 engine	det
2	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 gas	case
5	nitrogen	nitrogen	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gas	compound
6	gas	gas	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	the engine			nitrogen gas			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on gas=Trajectory

Option 3

Air is the only fuel that it ever uses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fuel	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fuel	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fuel	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fuel	amod
5	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 uses	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 uses	nsubj
8	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 uses	advmod
9	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 fuel	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Air	the only fuel					tree rules
2	use	present	Air				ever		vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The fuel needs oxygen to burn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fuel	det
2	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	nsubj
3	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needs	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 burn	mark
6	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 needs	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	the fuel	oxygen					tree rules
2	burn not said to happen	to-infinitive	oxygen not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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