Test 2 · ★★ · Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, ea…

How could traffic lights help a colour-blind driver who cannot tell red from green?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: traffic lights, blind driver · What happens: help, not tell · To what, where: blind driver, red, green · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★★ of lesson 362 «Eyes and ears deeper: glasses, colour blindness, tears, earwax and dizziness» of the biology 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 help	advmod
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
3	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lights	compound
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 help	nsubj
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 driver	det
7	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blind	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 colour	punct
9	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 driver	amod
10	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 help	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 tell	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 tell	advmod
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 driver	acl:relcl
15	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tell	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 green	case
17	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tell	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	could	traffic lights		a blind driver				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Beneficiary
2	not tell speech: assert	can	a blind driver	red		green			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent red=Recipient

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

Option 1

Colour-blind people are not allowed near roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blind	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Colour	punct
3	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 people	amod
4	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 allowed	nsubj:pass
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 allowed	aux:pass
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 allowed	advmod
7	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	near	near	ADP	_	9 roads	case
9	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		blind people		roads			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Red is always in the same place, at the top, so the position tells him

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	amod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 place	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 place	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 place	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 place	det
6	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 place	amod
7	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 top	punct
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 top	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 top	det
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 place	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 tells	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 tells	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 position	det
15	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tells	nsubj
16	tells	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 place	parataxis
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tells	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				the Red same place and the top		always property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	present	the position		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Green lights blink and red ones do not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lights	amod
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blink	nsubj
3	blink	blink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 do	cc
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ones	amod
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blink	conj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 do	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blink	present	Green lights						vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	not do	present	red ones						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Red lights always make a loud beeping noise so that drivers can hear them change

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lights	amod
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 make	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 make	advmod
4	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 noise	det
6	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 noise	amod
7	beeping	beeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 noise	compound
8	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 make	obj
9	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 hear	mark
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 so	fixed
11	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hear	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 hear	aux
13	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 make	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hear	obj
15	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 hear	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	present	Red lights	a loud beeping noise	always property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product
2	hear	can	drivers	lights = light		tree rules
3	change	infinitive	lights = light not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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