--- title: saw a car hit a fence n drive off, what do i tell police — Remembering details · tree and pragmatics description: saw a car hit a fence n drive off, what do i tell police Test 10 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was right. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/18-remembering-details/t10/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/) / [Remembering details](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/18-remembering-details/) / t10 # Test 10 · Remembering details saw a car hit a fence n drive off, what do i tell police **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** saw car, i · **What happens:** see, hit, drive off, tell · **To what, where:** fence n, police · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 10 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» of the everyday 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/18-remembering-details/#t10). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t10:1 # text = saw a car hit a fence n drive off, what do i tell police 1 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 amod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 hit hit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 fence fence NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 n n NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 xcomp _ _ 9 off off ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 12 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 i I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 15 police police NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **hit** | past | a saw car | a fence n | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **drive off** | infinitive | a saw car *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | i | police | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient police=Topic | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} What other people said ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t10:o1:1 # text = What other people said 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 4 obj _ _ 2 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | other people | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2} Colour, type, plate and which way it went ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t10:o2:1 # text = Colour, type, plate and which way it went 1 Colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 type type NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 plate plate NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 which which DET WDT PronType=Int 8 det _ _ 8 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | way | Colour and type and plate and which way *not said here* | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location colour=Theme | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nothing, it's not my business ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t10:o3:1 # text = Nothing, it's not my business 1 Nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 business business NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Nothing | my business | | | | | tree rules | ### Option 4 {#o4} Only how loud it was when it crashed ```conllu # sent_id = question:everyday:18-remembering-details:t10:o4:1 # text = Only how loud it was when it crashed 1 Only only ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 3 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 8 advmod _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 crashed crash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | it | | | | | crash *property* | tree rules | **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. 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