Test 4 · Going up and down stairs safely

Why is a school bag left on the stairs a problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: school bag · What happens: be, leave · To what, where: school bag, problem, stairs

This is test 4 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 bag	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 bag	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bag	det
4	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bag	compound
5	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 bag	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 stairs	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stairs	det
9	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 left	obl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 problem	det
11	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 left	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bag	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a school bag					tree rules
2	leave	participle	a school bag not said here	a problem		the stairs			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Someone can trip over it and fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 trip	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trip	aux
3	trip	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 trip	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fall	cc
7	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trip	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trip	can	Someone			it			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over it=Trajectory
2	fall	infinitive	Someone not said here						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It makes the stairs weaker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stairs	det
4	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the stairs				weak property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material stair=Product

Option 3

It makes the stairs dirty and muddy for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stairs	det
4	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
5	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 makes	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 muddy	cc
7	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dirty	conj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 dirty	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the stairs				dirty property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material stair=Product

Option 4

It blocks the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blocks	nsubj
2	blocks	block	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 light	det
4	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blocks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	block	present	It	the light					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer light=Theme

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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