Test 16 · Sounds that warn

Ava reckons a car alarm or horn is never about her. right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ava, car alarm · What happens: reckon, not be

This is test 16 of lesson 12 «Sounds that warn» 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	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 reckons	nsubj
2	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 alarm	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alarm	compound
5	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 her	nsubj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 horn	cc
7	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alarm	conj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 her	cop
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 her	advmod
10	about	about	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 reckons	ccomp
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct
13	right	right	ADV	_	2 reckons	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Ava					right property	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	not is	present	a car alarm or horn					about her = she	tree rules

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

Yes, it is just noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 noise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 noise	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 noise	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 noise	advmod
6	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	noise					tree rules

Option 2

Yes, unless it plays a song or keeps on beeping at her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 plays	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 plays	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	5 plays	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plays	nsubj
5	plays	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 song	det
7	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plays	obj
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 keeps	cc
9	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plays	conj
10	on	on	SCONJ	_	11 beeping	mark
11	beeping	beep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keeps	xcomp
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 beeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	play	present	it	a song		vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme
2	keep	present				tree rules
3	beep	gerund			at her = she	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at she=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, a horn may be warning you to move

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 warning	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 horn	det
4	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warning	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 warning	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 warning	aux
7	warning	warn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 warning	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 move	mark
10	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 warning	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	may · progressive	a horn		you				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	move	to-infinitive	a horn not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, horns are only for other cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 cars	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cars	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cars	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 cars	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 cars	case
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cars	amod
8	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	horns					for other cars	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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