Test 15 · ★ · Queues, taking turns and interrupting

Why is shoving on bus steps dangerous?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: shove

This is test 15 · ★ of lesson 223 «Queues, taking turns and interrupting» 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	3 shoving	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 shoving	aux
3	shoving	shove	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 steps	case
5	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 steps	compound
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 shoving	obl
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shoving	xcomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 shoving	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shove	present · progressive						on bus steps; dangerous property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent on step=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

People can fall down the steps and get hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 fall	aux
3	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	6 steps	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steps	det
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fall	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hurt	cc
8	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 hurt	aux:pass
9	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 fall	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	can	People	the steps					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient step=Result
2	hurt	infinitive · passive	People not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 2

It makes the bus late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bus	det
4	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 makes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the bus				late property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bus=Product

Option 3

Steps are only for adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 adults	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 adults	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 adults	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Steps					for adults	tree rules

Option 4

The driver loses money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 driver	det
2	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loses	nsubj
3	loses	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loses	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	present	the driver	money					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Eventuality

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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