Exam question 2 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

It being given that a pedestrian in the United States is about to cross a road, identify the direction from which the nearest traffic approaches.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pedestrian · What happens: give, be, cross, identify · To what, where: It, road, direction, nearest traffic approaches

This is exam question 2 of lesson 11 «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 about	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pedestrian	det
6	pedestrian	pedestrian	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 about	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 States	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 States	det
9	United	United	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 States	amod
10	States	State	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 pedestrian	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 about	cop
12	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 given	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cross	mark
14	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 about	xcomp
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 road	det
16	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cross	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 identify	punct
18	identify	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 given	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 direction	det
20	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 identify	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	26 approaches	case
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 approaches	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 approaches	det
24	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 approaches	amod
25	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 approaches	compound
26	approaches	approach	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 identify	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	gerund · passive		It			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present	a pedestrian in the United States			about property	tree rules
3	cross	to-infinitive	a pedestrian in the United States not said here	a road			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient
4	identify	infinitive		the direction	the nearest traffic approaches		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent direction=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

From directly behind the pedestrian

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	2 directly	case
2	directly	directly	ADV	_	root	root
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 pedestrian	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pedestrian	det
5	pedestrian	pedestrian	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 directly	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

From both directions with equal proximity

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 directions	case
2	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 directions	det
3	directions	direction	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 proximity	case
5	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proximity	amod
6	proximity	proximity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 directions	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

From the left, traffic proceeding upon the right-hand side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 left	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 left	det
3	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proceeding	punct
5	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proceeding	compound
6	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	appos
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 side	det
9	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 right	punct
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 side	compound
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proceeding	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

From the right, traffic proceeding upon the left-hand side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 right	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 right	det
3	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proceeding	punct
5	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proceeding	compound
6	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	appos
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 side	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 side	det
9	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 left	punct
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 side	compound
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proceeding	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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