Test 12 · ★ · Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things

on the escalator in london, ppl keep saying excuse me behind me??

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ppl · What happens: keep, say, excuse · To what, where: escalator, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 225 «Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things» 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	on	on	ADP	_	3 escalator	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 escalator	det
3	escalator	escalator	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 keep	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 london	case
5	london	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 escalator	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 escalator	punct
7	ppl	people	NOUN	Abbr=Yes Number=Plur	8 keep	nsubj
8	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 keep	xcomp
10	excuse	excuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saying	xcomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 excuse	obj
12	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 me	case
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 excuse	obl
14	??	??	PUNCT	_	8 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	keep	present	ppl		the escalator in london		tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	ppl not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	excuse	infinitive	ppl not said here	me		behind me	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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

Stand on the right so people can walk on the left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 right	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 right	det
4	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 walk	mark
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 walk	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 walk	aux
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stand	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 left	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 left	det
11	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			the right			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on right=Location
2	walk	can	people			the left			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on left=Trajectory

Option 2

Stand in the middle so nobody pushes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 middle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 pushes	advmod
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 pushes	nsubj
7	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Stand	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			the middle			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location
2	push	present	nobody						vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Sit down on the step

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 step	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 step	det
5	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here					on the step	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location

Option 4

Walk down the up escalator

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 escalator	det
4	up	up	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 escalator	amod
5	escalator	escalator	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk down	imperative	you not said here	the up escalator				down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme escalator=Trajectory

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