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title: «car factory makes like 1 car a week tops» What is right? — How a car is built · tree and pragmatics
description: «car factory makes like 1 car a week tops» What is right? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 8 «How a car is built» 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 7 · ★ · How a car is built

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
«car factory makes like 1 car a week tops» What is right?

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**Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 2 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** car factory · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** week tops · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 8 «How a car is built» 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/8-how-a-car-is-built/#t7).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:8-how-a-car-is-built:t7:1
# text = «car factory makes like 1 car a week tops» What is right?
1	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	»	»	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
12	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** *in a quote* | present | car factory | a week tops |  |  |  | like 1 car | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | right *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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It takes a whole year of work to finish each car

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:8-how-a-car-is-built:t7:o1:1
# text = It takes a whole year of work to finish each car
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | It |  |  |  | year |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **finish** | to-infinitive |  | each car |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality car=Eventuality |

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

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A modern factory can finish a car about every minute or two

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:8-how-a-car-is-built:t7:o2:1
# text = A modern factory can finish a car about every minute or two
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	finish	finish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	conj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | can | a modern factory | a car |  |  | minute |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality car=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A thousand cars roll out of every factory every single minute

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:8-how-a-car-is-built:t7:o3:1
# text = A thousand cars roll out of every factory every single minute
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	roll	roll	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
8	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll out** | present | a thousand cars | every factory |  |  | minute |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location factory=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Yes, one car a week is the most any factory can do

```conllu
# sent_id = question:technology:8-how-a-car-is-built:t7:o4:1
# text = Yes, one car a week is the most any factory can do
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
10	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	factory	factory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | one car  a week | the factory |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | can | the factory |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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