Test 15 · ★ · Good manners on buses and trains, and borrowing things

dropped my phone on the tracks

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: drop · To what, where: phone, tracks

This is test 15 · ★ 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	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 phone	nmod:poss
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 tracks	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tracks	det
6	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past		my phone		the tracks			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent phone=Theme on track=Destination

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

Wait for the train to pass and get it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 train	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 train	det
4	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 pass	mark
6	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 get	cc
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pass	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		for the train	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass	to-infinitive	you not said here			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	infinitive	you not said here	train		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

Lean down with a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lean	lean	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Lean	compound:prt
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lean	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lean down	imperative	you not said here					with a stick	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Jump down and grab it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 Jump	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 grab	cc
4	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Jump	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump down	imperative	you not said here					down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Don't go down, tell staff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 go	advmod
3	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct
6	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 go	conj
7	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go down	imperative · do-support	you not said here					down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	staff					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent staff=Recipient

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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