Test 10 · Remembering details

saw a car hit a fence n drive off, what do i tell police

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: saw car, i · What happens: see, hit, drive off, tell · To what, where: fence n, police · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 18 «Remembering details» 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	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 car	amod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 car	det
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 n	det
6	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 n	compound
7	n	n	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obj
8	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hit	xcomp
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 drive	compound:prt
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tell	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 tell	obj
12	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tell	aux
13	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tell	nsubj
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hit	conj
15	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	past			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	hit	past	a saw car	a fence n	tree rules
3	drive off	infinitive	a saw car not said here		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	present · do-support	i	police	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient police=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

What other people said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 said	obj
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 people	amod
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	other people						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Colour, type, plate and which way it went

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 type	punct
3	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Colour	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 plate	punct
5	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Colour	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 way	cc
7	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Colour	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Colour	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	way	Colour and type and plate and which way not said here					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location colour=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, it's not my business

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 business	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 business	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 business	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 business	advmod
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 business	nmod:poss
7	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	Nothing	my business					tree rules

Option 4

Only how loud it was when it crashed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 loud	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 loud	advmod
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loud	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 crashed	cop
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 crashed	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 crashed	nsubj
8	crashed	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 loud	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					crash property	tree rules

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