Test 14 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

walking home and texting, road's quiet tho

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: walk · To what, where: quiet tho

This is test 14 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	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 walking	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 texting	cc
4	texting	texting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 walking	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tho	punct
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tho	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 road	case
8	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tho	amod
9	tho	tho	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 walking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund		road's quiet tho				home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Stop and put the phone away before you cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 put	cc
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 phone	det
5	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 put	advmod
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 cross	mark
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 cross	nsubj
9	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	put away	infinitive	you not said here	the phone	away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent phone=Goal
3	cross	present	you			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Text faster so you finish before the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Text	text	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Text	advmod
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 finish	advmod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 finish	nsubj
5	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Text	advcl
6	before	before	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 finish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	text	imperative	you not said here					fast property	tree rules
2	finish	present	you				before the road		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Hold the phone higher to see over it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phone	det
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obj
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Hold	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 see	mark
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Hold	advcl
7	over	over	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	the phone				high property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	you not said here			phone			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

Keep texting, quiet roads are safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	texting	texting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 safe	punct
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 roads	amod
5	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 safe	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 safe	cop
7	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	texting					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent texting=Theme
2	is	present	quiet roads					safe property	tree rules

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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