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title: Why do bikes and cars both have gears? — Inside a car: engine, gears and the da… · tree and pragmatics
description: Why do bikes and cars both have gears? Test 6 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 6 · Inside a car: engine, gears and the dashboard

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Why do bikes and cars both have gears?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** bikes · **What happens:** do, have · **To what, where:** gears

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This is test 6 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/#t6).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:17-inside-a-car:t6:1
# text = Why do bikes and cars both have gears?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
3	bikes	bike	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	both	both	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	gears	gear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | bikes and cars *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | present | bikes and cars | gears |  |  |  | both *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gear=Patient |

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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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Gears are only for racing

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:17-inside-a-car:t6:o1:1
# text = Gears are only for racing
1	Gears	gear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	racing	racing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Gears |  |  |  |  | for racing | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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To make them look complicated

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:17-inside-a-car:t6:o2:1
# text = To make them look complicated
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	complicated	complicated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | them *= they* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | infinitive | them *= they* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | complicated *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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To make the chain longer

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:17-inside-a-car:t6:o3:1
# text = To make the chain longer
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	xcomp	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | the chain |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset chain=Product |

### Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Low gears help start and climb, high gears go fast easily

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:17-inside-a-car:t6:o4:1
# text = Low gears help start and climb, high gears go fast easily
1	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	gears	gear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gears	gear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
12	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **help** | present | Low gears |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **start** | infinitive | Low gears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **climb** | infinitive | Low gears *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | present | high gears |  |  |  |  | easily, fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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