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title: A car slows down without the driver touching the brake pedal, and th… — Electric cars and charging · tree and pragmatics
description: A car slows down without the driver touching the brake pedal, and the battery number goes up. What happened? Test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «Electric cars and charging» of the technology course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's ch
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# Test 5 · ★★★ · Electric cars and charging

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A car slows down without the driver touching the brake pedal, and the battery number goes up. What happened?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** car, driver, battery number · **What happens:** slow down, touch, go up, happen · **To what, where:** brake pedal

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This is test 5 · ★★★ of lesson 19 «Electric cars and charging» 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/19-electric-cars-and-charging/#t5).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A car slows down without the driver touching the brake pedal, and the battery number goes up.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:19-electric-cars-and-charging:t5:1
# text = A car slows down without the driver touching the brake pedal, and the battery number goes up.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	without	without	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	touching	touch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	pedal	pedal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow down** | present | a car |  |  |  |  | without the driver | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **touch** | gerund | the driver *not said here* | the brake pedal |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pedal=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **go up** | present | the battery number |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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:* What happened?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:19-electric-cars-and-charging:t5:2
# text = What happened?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	2	nsubj	_	_
2	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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The battery magically refilled

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:19-electric-cars-and-charging:t5:o1:1
# text = The battery magically refilled
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	battery	battery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	magically	magically	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	refilled	refill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refill** | participle |  | the battery *not said here* |  |  |  | magically *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The car found a hidden charger

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:19-electric-cars-and-charging:t5:o2:1
# text = The car found a hidden charger
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the car | a hidden charger |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charger=Topic |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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The driver turned the radio off

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:19-electric-cars-and-charging:t5:o3:1
# text = The driver turned the radio off
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	driver	driver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	radio	radio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn off** | past | the driver | the radio |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent radio=Patient |

### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4}

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Regenerative braking turned movement back into electricity

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:19-electric-cars-and-charging:t5:o4:1
# text = Regenerative braking turned movement back into electricity
1	Regenerative	Regenerative	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	braking	braking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	electricity	electricity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | past | Regenerative braking | movement |  | electricity |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=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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