Test 13 · ★ · Transport: from horses to planes

my mate reckons Henry Ford invented the car. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: mate, Henry · What happens: reckon, invent · To what, where: car

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 99 «Transport: from horses to planes» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mate	nmod:poss
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Henry	Henry	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 invented	nsubj
5	Ford	Ford	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Henry	flat
6	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 invented	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	3 reckons	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my mate						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	invent	past	Henry	the car					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Result

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 · ✓ the right answer

No, his assembly line made cars cheap; Benz built one of the first cars

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 line	nmod:poss
4	assembly	assembly	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 line	compound
5	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 made	obj
8	cheap	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	xcomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 built	punct
10	Benz	Benz	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 built	nsubj
11	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 made	conj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 built	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 cars	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cars	det
15	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 cars	amod
16	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	his assembly line	cars				cheap property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset car=Product
2	build	past	Benz	one of the first cars					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product

Option 2

No, the Wright brothers invented the car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 invented	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 brothers	det
4	Wright	Wright	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brothers	compound
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 invented	nsubj
6	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 invented	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invent	past	the Wright brothers	the car					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Result

Option 3

Yes, and also the first aeroplane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 aeroplane	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 aeroplane	cc
4	also	also	ADV	_	7 aeroplane	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 aeroplane	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 aeroplane	amod
7	aeroplane	aeroplane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Yes, he built the very first car in 1913

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 built	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 built	nsubj
4	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 car	det
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 first	advmod
7	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 car	amod
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 built	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 1913	case
10	1913	1913	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	4 built	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	build	past	he	the first car		1913			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Product

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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