Test 14 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

why does mum say look around u in car parks

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: mum · What happens: say, look · To what, where: car parks · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★★★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 say	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
6	around	around	ADP	_	7 u	case
7	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 look	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 parks	case
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 parks	compound
10	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present · do-support	mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	infinitive				car parks		around u	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent around you=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

Cars only ever drive forwards there, never backwards

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drive	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	4 drive	advmod
3	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 drive	advmod
4	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	forwards	forwards	ADV	_	4 drive	advmod
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 drive	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 backwards	punct
8	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	9 backwards	advmod
9	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	4 drive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	infinitive	Cars			there	ever	backwards, forwards property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme

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

Drivers reversing may not see you, so you must see them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 see	nsubj
2	reversing	reverse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Drivers	acl
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 see	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 see	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 see	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reverse	gerund	Drivers not said here		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	not see	may	Drivers	you	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	see	must	you	Drivers = driver	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

Option 3

Car parks are boring otherwise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 parks	compound
2	parks	park	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 boring	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 boring	cop
4	boring	boring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	4 boring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Car parks					boring, otherwise property	tree rules

Option 4

You might find money on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 find	nsubj
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 find	aux
3	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	might	You	money		the ground			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Topic

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