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title: Some cars drip water from the exhaust pipe on a cold morning. Is the… — Inside a car: engine, gears and the da… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some cars drip water from the exhaust pipe on a cold morning. Is the car broken? Test 10 of lesson 17 «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» 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 right
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# Test 10 · Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard

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Some cars drip water from the exhaust pipe on a cold morning. Is the car broken?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** cars · **What happens:** drip, be, break · **To what, where:** water, exhaust pipe, car

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This is test 10 of lesson 17 «Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard» 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/17-inside-a-car/#t10).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Some cars drip water from the exhaust pipe on a cold morning.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:17-inside-a-car:t10:1
# text = Some cars drip water from the exhaust pipe on a cold morning.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drip	drip	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	exhaust	exhaust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drip** | present | some cars | water |  | the exhaust pipe | morning |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from pipe=Initial\_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.

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*Sentence 2:* Is the car broken?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:17-inside-a-car:t10:2
# text = Is the car broken?
1	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the car |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **break** | participle · passive |  | the car |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Yes, the engine is full of rain

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:17-inside-a-car:t10:o1:1
# text = Yes, the engine is full of rain
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	engine	engine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the engine |  |  |  |  | of rain; full *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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Usually not; burning fuel makes water vapour that cools to drops

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:17-inside-a-car:t10:o2:1
# text = Usually not; burning fuel makes water vapour that cools to drops
1	Usually	usually	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	fuel	fuel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	vapour	vapour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	cools	cool	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **make** | present | burning fuel | water vapour |  |  |  | usually *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset vapour=Product |
| 3 | **cool** | present | water vapour |  |  |  |  | to drops | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, the exhaust is leaking petrol

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:17-inside-a-car:t10:o3:1
# text = Yes, the exhaust is leaking petrol
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	exhaust	exhaust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	leaking	leak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	petrol	petrol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leak** | present · progressive | the exhaust | petrol |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location petrol=Source |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, someone poured water in it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:17-inside-a-car:t10:o4:1
# text = No, someone poured water in it
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	someone	someone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	4	nsubj	_	_
4	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | past | someone | water |  | water |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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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