Test 1 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings
Mia is texting while she walks through a car park. Why should she stop?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mia · What happens: text, walk, stop · To what, where: car park
This is test 1 of lesson 11 «Eyes up: noticing your surroundings» 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
Sentence 1: Mia is texting while she walks through a car park.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mia | Mia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 texting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 texting | aux |
| 3 | texting | text | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 walks | mark |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 walks | nsubj |
| 6 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 texting | advcl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 park | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 park | det |
| 9 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 park | compound |
| 10 | park | park | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walks | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 texting | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | text | present · progressive | Mia | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | walk | present | Mia | a car park | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through park=Trajectory |
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.
Sentence 2: Why should she stop?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 stop | advmod |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stop | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | should | Mia | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Texting there will drain her battery
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texting | texting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drain | nsubj |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 Texting | advmod |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 drain | aux |
| 4 | drain | drain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 drain | obj |
| 6 | battery | battery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drain | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drain | future | Texting | her = she | tree rules |
Option 2
Drivers get angry at people with phones and may shout at her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Drivers | driver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | nsubj |
| 2 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 get | xcomp |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 phones | case |
| 7 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 get | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shout | cc |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 shout | aux |
| 10 | shout | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 get | conj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shout | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Drivers | at people; with phones; angry property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | shout speech: express | may | Drivers not said here | at her = she | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
A car may back out and she might not notice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 car | det |
| 2 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 out | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 out | aux |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 out | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 notice | cc |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 notice | nsubj |
| 8 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 notice | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 notice | advmod |
| 10 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 out | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not notice | might | she | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Car parks have no signal for phones
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 parks | compound |
| 2 | parks | park | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 signal | det |
| 5 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 phones | case |
| 7 | phones | phone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 signal | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Car parks | no signal | for phones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Patient |
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