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title: «a monster truck at the mine had tyres taller than my dad» Could tha… — Diggers, cranes and cement mixers · tree and pragmatics
description: «a monster truck at the mine had tyres taller than my dad» Could that be true? Test 9 · ★ of lesson 28 «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» 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 9 · ★ · Diggers, cranes and cement mixers

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«a monster truck at the mine had tyres taller than my dad» Could that be true?

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**Mova's choice:** option 4 · **The right answer:** option 4 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** monster truck, that · **What happens:** have, be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 28 «Diggers, cranes and cement mixers» 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/28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers/#t9).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers:t9:1
# text = «a monster truck at the mine had tyres taller than my dad» Could that be true?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	truck	truck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	csubj	_	_
9	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	dad	dad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
15	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
18	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | past | a monster truck at the mine |  |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | could | that |  |  |  |  | true *property* | 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 {#o1}

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No, no tyre is taller than a bike wheel

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers:t9:o1:1
# text = No, no tyre is taller than a bike wheel
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	tyre	tyre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	bike	bike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	wheel	wheel	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 | no tyre |  |  |  |  | than a bike wheel; tall *property* | tree rules |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No, mine trucks have no tyres, only tracks

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers:t9:o2:1
# text = No, mine trucks have no tyres, only tracks
1	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	mine	mine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	trucks	truck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	only	only	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	tracks	track	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | mine trucks | no tyres and tracks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Only in films

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers:t9:o3:1
# text = Only in films
1	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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

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

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Yes, the biggest mining dump trucks have tyres taller than an adult

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:28-diggers-cranes-and-cement-mixers:t9:o4:1
# text = Yes, the biggest mining dump trucks have tyres taller than an adult
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
5	mining	mining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	dump	dump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	trucks	truck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	tyres	tyre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	adult	adult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the biggest dump trucks | tyres |  |  |  | tall *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyre=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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