Test 15 · Remembering details

saw a car drive off after hitting a dog, what should i remember

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: saw car, i · What happens: see, drive off, hit, remember · To what, where: dog

This is test 15 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 drive	nsubj
4	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 drive	compound:prt
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 hitting	mark
7	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 drive	advcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hitting	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 remember	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 remember	obj
12	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 remember	aux
13	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 remember	nsubj
14	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	see	past			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	drive off	infinitive	a saw car		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	hit	gerund	a saw car not said here	a dog	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme dog=Co-Theme
4	remember	should	i		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The colour, the type and the plate if you can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 colour	det
2	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 type	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 type	det
5	type	type	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 plate	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plate	det
8	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 colour	conj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 can	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 can	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	2 colour	acl:relcl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Just which way the dog ran

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	6 ran	advmod
2	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	3 way	det
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	obl:unmarked
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ran	nsubj
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the dog	which way					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nothing, it is not your job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Only how loud it was

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	3 loud	cop

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