Test 2 · ★ · Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry

Why do we thank a bus driver who is paid to drive?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: we · What happens: thank, pay, drive · To what, where: bus driver

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 126 «Goodbye, please, thank you and sorry» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 thank	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 thank	aux
3	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 thank	nsubj
4	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 driver	det
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 driver	compound
7	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thank	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 paid	nsubj:pass
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 paid	aux:pass
10	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 driver	acl:relcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 drive	mark
12	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 paid	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 thank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	present · do-support	we		a bus driver	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent driver=Theme
2	pay	present · passive		a bus driver		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset
3	drive	to-infinitive				vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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

Because it is a rule only on school buses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 rule	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rule	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rule	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rule	det
5	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 buses	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 buses	case
8	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 buses	compound
9	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rule	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Because the driver might stop the bus and make you get off otherwise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	5 stop	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 driver	det
3	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 stop	aux
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bus	det
7	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stop	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 make	cc
9	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stop	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 make	obj
11	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 make	xcomp
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 get	compound:prt
13	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	11 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	might	the driver	the bus		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector bus=Eventuality
2	make	infinitive	the driver not said here	you		tree rules
3	get off	infinitive	you not said here		otherwise property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Because thanking makes the bus go faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	3 makes	mark
2	thanking	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	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 bus	det
5	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 makes	xcomp
7	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	gerund				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	present		the bus		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	the bus not said here		fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

People who look after us deserve thanks, paid or not

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deserve	nsubj
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 People	acl:relcl
4	after	after	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 look	obl
6	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 deserve	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 paid	punct
9	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 thanks	acl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 not	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 paid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	look	present	People		after us	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	deserve	present	People	thanks		tree rules
3	pay	participle		thanks not said here		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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