Test 8 · ★ · Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels

Why are worn, smooth tyres dangerous on a rainy day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: wear

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 85 «Pushes, pulls, friction and wheels» 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	3 worn	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 worn	aux:pass
3	worn	wear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tyres	punct
5	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tyres	amod
6	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dangerous	obl:unmarked
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 worn	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 day	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 day	det
10	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 day	amod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 worn	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 worn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	present · passive					day	dangerous property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»

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

They make the brakes work too hard

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	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brakes	det
4	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 work	nsubj
5	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 make	ccomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 work	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They						tree rules
2	work	present	the brakes						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They are much heavier than new tyres

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	4 heavier	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavier	cop
3	much	much	ADV	_	4 heavier	advmod
4	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 tyres	case
6	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 tyres	amod
7	tyres	tyre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 heavier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					than new tyres; heavy property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They cannot push the water away to grip

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	4 push	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 push	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 push	advmod
4	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 push	obj
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 push	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 grip	mark
9	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 push	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not push away	can	They	the water				away property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
2	grip	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They make the car go too slowly

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	2 make	nsubj
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 make	xcomp
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 slowly	advmod
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	They	the car					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the car not said here					slowly property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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