Test 2 · ★ · Responsibility, independence and curiosity

Why do parents want to walk the school route with you before you go alone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parents, you · What happens: want, walk, go · To what, where: school route

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 101 «Responsibility, independence and curiosity» 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	4 want	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 walk	mark
6	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 route	det
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 route	compound
9	route	route	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walk	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 walk	obl
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 go	mark
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 walk	advcl
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	parents			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	parents not said here	the school route	with you	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme route=Trajectory
3	go	present	you		alone property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

So they can check the shops on the way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 check	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 check	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 check	aux
4	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shops	det
6	shops	shop	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 check	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 check	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	can	they	the shops		the way			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shop=Theme

Option 2

So you can learn a quicker shortcut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 learn	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 learn	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 learn	aux
4	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shortcut	det
6	quicker	quick	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 shortcut	amod
7	shortcut	shortcut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	can	you	a quicker shortcut					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shortcut=Topic

Option 3

Because children may never walk alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 walk	mark
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 walk	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 walk	advmod
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	may	children					alone property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

So you learn the safe way first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 learn	advmod
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 learn	nsubj
3	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 learn	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 learn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	present	you	the safe way				first property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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