Test 13 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

electric car came right up behind me, didnt hear it

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: electric car, didnt · What happens: come, hear · To what, where: car

This is test 13 · ★★★ of lesson 20 «Thinking about noticing» 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	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 car	amod
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	right	right	ADV	_	5 up	advmod
5	up	up	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
6	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
9	didnt	didnt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hear	nsubj
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	electric car					behind me	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind i=Location
2	hear	infinitive	didnt	car					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Look as well as listen, they're quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	5 listen	cc
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 as	fixed
4	as	as	ADP	_	2 as	fixed
5	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 quiet	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 quiet	nsubj
8	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 quiet	cop
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Look	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	listen	infinitive	you not said here		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	they	quiet property	tree rules

Option 2

They only drive at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drive	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 drive	advmod
3	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present	They				night		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Only listen, never look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 listen	advmod
2	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 look	punct
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 look	advmod
5	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 listen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	imperative	you not said here						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	not look	infinitive	you not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Electric cars are always loud, so you'd hear it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cars	amod
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 loud	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hear	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 hear	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 hear	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 hear	aux
10	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 loud	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Electric cars					always, loud property	tree rules
2	hear	would	you	it					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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