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title: ugh do I need the belt, it's only to the shop round the corner? — Car safety: brakes, seat belts and air… · tree and pragmatics
description: ugh do I need the belt, it's only to the shop round the corner? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 18 «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» 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 1 · ★ · Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
ugh do I need the belt, it's only to the shop round the corner?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** I, belt · **What happens:** need, be · **To what, where:** belt

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This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 18 «Car safety: brakes, seat belts and airbags» 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/18-car-safety/#t1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:18-car-safety:t1:1
# text = ugh do I need the belt, it's only to the shop round the corner?
1	ugh	ugh	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shop	shop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	round	round	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present · do-support | I | the belt |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot belt=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | belt |  |  |  |  | to the shop; round the corner | 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 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Only if it's raining and the road is wet

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:18-car-safety:t1:o1:1
# text = Only if it's raining and the road is wet
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	raining	rain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	csubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rain** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | it | the road |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | raining |  |  |  |  | wet *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, only on long motorway trips

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:18-car-safety:t1:o2:1
# text = No, only on long motorway trips
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	motorway	motorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trips	trip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, every trip, in every seat

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:18-car-safety:t1:o3:1
# text = Yes, every trip, in every seat
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	trip	trip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
```

<!-- .note -->
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, only grown-ups need one in a car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:18-car-safety:t1:o4:1
# text = No, only grown-ups need one in a car
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **need** | present | grown ups | one |  | a car |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot one=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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