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title: In a cartoon a tram swerves round a dog on the track. What is true? — Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights · tree and pragmatics
description: In a cartoon a tram swerves round a dog on the track. What is true? Test 3 of lesson 20 «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» 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 3 · Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights

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In a cartoon a tram swerves round a dog on the track. What is true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** tram · **What happens:** swerve, be · **To what, where:** cartoon

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This is test 3 of lesson 20 «Buses, trams, lorries and traffic lights» 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/20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* In a cartoon a tram swerves round a dog on the track.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights:t3:1
# text = In a cartoon a tram swerves round a dog on the track.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tram	tram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	swerves	swerve	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swerve** | present | a tram |  |  | a cartoon |  | round a dog; on the track | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round dog=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:* What is true?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights:t3:2
# text = What is true?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 {#o1}

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Trams have steering wheels like cars

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights:t3:o1:1
# text = Trams have steering wheels like cars
1	Trams	tram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	steering	steering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Trams | steering wheels |  |  |  | like cars | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient |

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

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A tram runs on rails and cannot swerve

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights:t3:o2:1
# text = A tram runs on rails and cannot swerve
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tram	tram	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rails	rail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	swerve	swerve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | a tram |  |  | rails |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rail=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **swerve** | can | a tram *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Trams jump over animals

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights:t3:o3:1
# text = Trams jump over animals
1	Trams	tram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	jump	jump	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	over	over	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | present | Trams |  |  |  |  | over animals | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over animal=Trajectory |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Trams can drive anywhere they like on the road

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:20-buses-trams-lorries-and-traffic-lights:t3:o4:1
# text = Trams can drive anywhere they like on the road
1	Trams	tram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	drive	drive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	3	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	like	like	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | can | Trams |  |  |  |  | anywhere *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **like** | present | Trams *= tram* |  |  | the road |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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