Test 8 · Sounds that warn

What does a car horn usually say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car horn · What happens: say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 horn	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 horn	compound
5	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
6	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	a car horn					usually property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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 car is running out of fuel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 running	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 running	aux
4	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	7 fuel	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 fuel	case
7	fuel	fuel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 running	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present · progressive	the car			fuel			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out fuel=Trajectory

Option 2

The music in the car is too loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 music	det
2	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 loud	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 car	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 music	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 loud	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 loud	advmod
8	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the music in the car					loud property	tree rules

Option 3

The driver is lost and needs help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 driver	det
2	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 needs	cc
6	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	conj
7	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 needs	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present · passive		the driver					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
2	need	present		help					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Watch out, there may be danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 danger	csubj
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Watch	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 be	expl
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 danger	cop
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch out	infinitive							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	is a	imperative	you not said here	danger					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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