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description: «mate says Henry Ford's line made cars slower but nicer» What is right? Test 12 of lesson 1 «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 12 · How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
«mate says Henry Ford's line made cars slower but nicer» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** mate, line · **What happens:** say, make, be · **To what, where:** cars · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 12 of lesson 1 «How a factory works: belts, robots, checks and people» of the technology 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/technology/1-how-a-factory-works/#t12).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:1-how-a-factory-works:t12:1
# text = «mate says Henry Ford's line made cars slower but nicer» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Henry	Henry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
7	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
9	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	slower	slow	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	nicer	nice	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
14	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present | mate |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** *in a quote* | past | Henry's line | cars |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | tree rules |

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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}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, a car then took a week instead of a day

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:1-how-a-factory-works:t12:o1:1
# text = Yes, a car then took a week instead of a day
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
6	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	12	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | a car |  |  |  | then; day; week |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, each car was then built by one worker alone

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:1-how-a-factory-works:t12:o2:1
# text = Yes, each car was then built by one worker alone
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	worker	worker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past · passive | one worker | each car |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset subject=Product |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it cut building time from about 12 hours to about an hour and a half

<!-- fold The tree, 16 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:1-how-a-factory-works:t12:o3:1
# text = No, it cut building time from about 12 hours to about an hour and a half
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	building	build	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	12	12	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	14	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut** | past | it |  |  |  | hour; time |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **build** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, it made a whole car in about one minute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:1-how-a-factory-works:t12:o4:1
# text = No, it made a whole car in about one minute
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	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	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | it | a whole car |  |  | minute |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material car=Product |

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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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