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Test 5 · Sounds that warn

An ambulance with its siren on is coming, and the walk signal turns green. What is best?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ambulance, walk signal · What happens: come, turn, be

This is test 5 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

Sentence 1: An ambulance with its siren on is coming, and the walk signal turns green.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ambulance	det
2	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coming	nsubj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 siren	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 siren	nmod:poss
5	siren	siren	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ambulance	nmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	2 ambulance	compound:prt
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	aux
8	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 turns	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 turns	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 signal	det
12	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 signal	compound
13	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 turns	nsubj
14	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 coming	conj
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 turns	xcomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 coming	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present · progressive	a ambulance with ambulance's siren						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	present	the walk signal					green property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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.

Sentence 2: What is best?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 best	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 best	cop
3	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 best	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						good property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Cross at once because the signal is green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Cross	obl
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 green	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 signal	det
6	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 green	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 green	cop
8	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cross	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	imperative	you not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	the signal					green property	tree rules

Option 2

Wave at the driver and then cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 driver	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 driver	det
4	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wave	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cross	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cross	advmod
7	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wave	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	imperative	you not said here					at the driver	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at driver=Location
2	cross	infinitive	you not said here				then		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cross slowly so the driver can see you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Cross	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 see	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 driver	det
5	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Cross	advcl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	imperative	you not said here					slowly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	can	the driver	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Wait, because the ambulance may go through anyway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 go	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ambulance	det
5	ambulance	ambulance	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	through	through	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
9	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	7 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go through	may	the ambulance					anyway, through property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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