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title: wheels spinning and screaming, what should the driver do? — Living with friction: oil, wheels and… · tree and pragmatics
description: wheels spinning and screaming, what should the driver do? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 7 «Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip» 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 right.
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# Test 9 · ★ · Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip

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wheels spinning and screaming, what should the driver do?

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**Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 3 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** wheels · **What happens:** spin, scream, do

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 7 «Living with friction: oil, wheels and grip» 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/7-living-with-friction/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:7-living-with-friction:t9:1
# text = wheels spinning and screaming, what should the driver do?
1	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
2	spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	acl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
7	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | gerund | wheels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund | wheels *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | should | wheels |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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 {#o1}

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Press the pedal down even harder to get away quicker

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:7-living-with-friction:t9:o1:1
# text = Press the pedal down even harder to get away quicker
1	Press	press	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pedal	pedal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	harder	hard	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	advcl	_	_
9	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	quicker	quick	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press down** | imperative | you *not said here* | the pedal |  |  |  | down *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedal=Theme |
| 2 | **get away** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, quick *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Put the brakes on and off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:7-living-with-friction:t9:o2:1
# text = Put the brakes on and off
1	Put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	brakes	brake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	on	on	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | the brakes |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent brake=Goal |

### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Start more smoothly so the tyres roll and grip

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:7-living-with-friction:t9:o3:1
# text = Start more smoothly so the tyres roll and grip
1	Start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	smoothly	smoothly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	grip	grip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | smoothly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **roll** | present | the tyres |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **grip** | present | the tyres *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Turn the steering wheel quickly

```conllu
# sent_id = question:physics:7-living-with-friction:t9:o4:1
# text = Turn the steering wheel quickly
1	Turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	steering	steering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the steering wheel |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme |

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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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