Test 7 · ★★★ · Thinking about noticing

Why is a quiet electric scooter especially risky for a walker staring at a phone with headphones on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: quiet electric scooter, walker · What happens: be, stare

This is test 7 · ★★★ 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	8 risky	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 risky	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 scooter	det
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scooter	amod
5	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scooter	amod
6	scooter	scooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 risky	nsubj
7	especially	especially	ADV	_	8 risky	advmod
8	risky	risky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 walker	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 walker	det
11	walker	walker	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 risky	obl
12	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 walker	acl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 phone	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 phone	det
15	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 staring	obl
16	with	with	ADP	_	17 headphones	case
17	headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 staring	obl
18	on	on	ADP	_	12 staring	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 risky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a quiet electric scooter					for a walker; especially, risky property	tree rules
2	stare	gerund	a walker not said here					with headphones; at a phone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=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

Electric scooters have no brakes at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 scooters	amod
2	scooters	scooter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 brakes	det
5	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 have	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Electric scooters	no brakes		all			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brake=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Neither sound nor sight would warn the walker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sound	det
2	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warn	nsubj
3	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	4 sight	cc
4	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sound	conj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 warn	aux
6	warn	warn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 walker	det
8	walker	walker	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 warn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	would	neither sound nor sight	the walker					vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent walker=Recipient

Option 3

Electric scooters always go faster than cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 scooters	amod
2	scooters	scooter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	nsubj
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 go	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 go	advmod
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 cars	case
7	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Electric scooters					always, fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Headphones attract electric scooters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Headphones	headphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attract	nsubj
2	attract	attract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scooters	amod
4	scooters	scooter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 attract	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attract	present	Headphones	electric scooters					vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scooter=Patient

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