Test 7 · Eyes up: noticing your surroundings

What is the best reason to look up from your phone on a train platform?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, look up · To what, where: best reason

This is test 7 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 reason	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 reason	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 reason	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 reason	amod
5	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reason	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 look	compound:prt
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 phone	case
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 phone	nmod:poss
11	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 platform	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 platform	det
14	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 platform	compound
15	platform	platform	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reason	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the best reason					tree rules
2	look up	to-infinitive						on a train platform; from your phone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from phone=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

To notice trains, the edge and people near you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 notice	mark
2	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 notice	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 edge	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trains	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 people	cc
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trains	conj
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 notice	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	to-infinitive		trains and the edge and people				near you	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer train=Stimulus

Option 2

Because phones stop working near trains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 stop	mark
2	phones	phone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	working	work	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 stop	xcomp
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 trains	case
6	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 working	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	phones						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	work	gerund	phones not said here			trains			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Because it makes the train arrive sooner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 makes	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 train	det
5	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
7	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 arrive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	it	the train					tree rules
2	arrive	infinitive	the train not said here					soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Because the staff will take your phone away if they see it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 take	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 staff	det
3	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 phone	nmod:poss
7	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 take	obj
8	away	away	ADV	_	5 take	advmod
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 see	mark
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
11	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 take	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	11 see	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take away	future	the staff	your phone				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phone=Theme
2	see out a condition, not said to happen	present	they	phone					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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