Test 13 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

crossing in sydney, which way first

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: cross · To what, where: sydney

This is test 13 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 sydney	case
3	sydney	sydney	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 crossing	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct
5	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sydney	conj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 crossing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund				sydney and which way		first property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Right, the nearest cars come from the right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Right	right	INTJ	_	6 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cars	det
4	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 cars	amod
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 right	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 right	det
9	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	the nearest cars			the right			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial_Location

Option 2

It does not matter there

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	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 matter	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It			there			vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Left, the nearest cars come from the left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 come	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 come	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cars	det
4	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 cars	amod
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 left	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 left	det
9	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle	the nearest cars not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	present	the nearest cars			the left			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from left=Initial_Location

Option 4

Only straight ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 straight	advmod
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	3 ahead	advmod
3	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	root	root

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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