--- title: A full lorry and an empty one have the same engine. Which speeds up… — Speed: fast and slow · tree and pragmatics description: A full lorry and an empty one have the same engine. Which speeds up faster? Test 11 of lesson 36 «Speed: fast and slow» of the physics course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/t11/) [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/) / [Physics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/) / [Speed: fast and slow](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/) / t11 # Test 11 · Speed: fast and slow A full lorry and an empty one have the same engine. Which speeds up faster? **Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** full lorry · **What happens:** have, speed up · **To what, where:** same engine This is test 11 of lesson 36 «Speed: fast and slow» of the physics 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/physics/36-speed-fast-and-slow/#t11). ## The question {#question} *Sentence 1:* A full lorry and an empty one have the same engine. ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:36-speed-fast-and-slow:t11:1 # text = A full lorry and an empty one have the same engine. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 8 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | a full lorry and a empty one | the same engine | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent engine=Patient | 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. *Sentence 2:* Which speeds up faster? ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:36-speed-fast-and-slow:t11:2 # text = Which speeds up faster? 1 Which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 2 nsubj _ _ 2 speeds speed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speed up** | present | | | | | | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} The full lorry ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:36-speed-fast-and-slow:t11:o1:1 # text = The full lorry 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Neither can speed up ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:36-speed-fast-and-slow:t11:o2:1 # text = Neither can speed up 1 Neither neither ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 speed speed VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speed up** | can | | | | | | neither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The empty lorry ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:36-speed-fast-and-slow:t11:o3:1 # text = The empty lorry 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 lorry lorry NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4} Both the same ```conllu # sent_id = question:physics:36-speed-fast-and-slow:t11:o4:1 # text = Both the same 1 Both both CCONJ CC _ 3 cc:preconj _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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