Test 2 · Going up and down stairs safely

Which habit keeps you safest on stairs?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: habit · What happens: keep · To what, where: you, stairs

This is test 2 of lesson 1 «Going up and down stairs safely» of the everyday 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 habit	det
2	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 keeps	nsubj
3	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 keeps	obj
5	safest	safe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 keeps	xcomp
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 stairs	case
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keeps	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 keeps	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	which habit	you		stairs		safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme on stair=Location

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

Taking big leaps to get to the bottom sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leaps	amod
3	leaps	leap	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Taking	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 get	mark
5	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Taking	advcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bottom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bottom	det
8	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
9	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Taking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	gerund		big leaps				soon property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive						to the bottom result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bottom=Result

Option 2

Running so you spend less time there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spend	advcl
2	so	so	ADV	_	4 spend	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 spend	nsubj
4	spend	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	less	less	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spend	obj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 spend	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spend	present	you			there	time		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Sliding down the banister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sliding	slide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	4 banister	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 banister	det
4	banister	banister	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sliding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	gerund				the banister			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down banister=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Holding the rail and taking each step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rail	det
3	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 taking	cc
5	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Holding	conj
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 step	det
7	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	gerund		the rail					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rail=Theme
2	take	gerund		each step					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme

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