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title: «toad drives like 100 mph lol» How fast could a 1908 car legally go… — Toad's Edwardian England: early motor… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 1 · ★★ · Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, stea…

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«toad drives like 100 mph lol» How fast could a 1908 car legally go on a British road?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** toad · **What happens:** drive, go · **To what, where:** British road · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 83 «Toad's Edwardian England: early motor cars, caravans, steam trains, wash day and gold sovereigns» of the history 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/history/83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns:t1:1
# text = «toad drives like 100 mph lol» How fast could a 1908 car legally go on a British road?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	toad	toad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	mph	mph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	lol	lol	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
10	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	1908	1908	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	legally	legally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** *in a quote* | present | toad |  |  |  |  | like 100 mph | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result |
| 2 | **go** | present |  |  |  | a British road |  | legally *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on road=Location |

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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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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There was no limit

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns:t1:o1:1
# text = There was no limit
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no limit |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
100 miles an hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns:t1:o2:1
# text = 100 miles an hour
1	100	100	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 3 {#o3}

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70 miles an hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns:t1:o3:1
# text = 70 miles an hour
1	70	70	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
20 miles an hour

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:83-toad-s-edwardian-england-early-motor-cars-caravans-steam-trains-wash-day-and-gold-sovereigns:t1:o4:1
# text = 20 miles an hour
1	20	20	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
```

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

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**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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