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Test 6 · ★ · Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds

A boy riding his scooter through the park comes up behind a family walking slowly. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, family · What happens: ride, come up, walk, do · To what, where: scooter, park, family

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 228 «Safe and kind in parks and playgrounds» 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

Sentence 1: A boy riding his scooter through the park comes up behind a family walking slowly.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	nsubj
3	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 boy	acl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 scooter	nmod:poss
5	scooter	scooter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 riding	obj
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 park	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 park	det
8	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 riding	obl
9	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 comes	compound:prt
11	behind	behind	ADP	_	13 family	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 family	det
13	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 comes	obl
14	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 family	acl
15	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	14 walking	advmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 comes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund	a boy not said here	boy's scooter		the park			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent scooter=Theme through park=Trajectory
2	come up	present	a boy			a family			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind family=Location
3	walk	gerund	a family not said here					slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What should he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Slow down, ring his bell and pass carefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Slow	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ring	punct
4	ring	ring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Slow	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 bell	nmod:poss
6	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ring	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 pass	cc
8	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Slow	conj
9	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	8 pass	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	imperative	you not said here						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	ring	infinitive	you not said here	his bell					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
3	pass	infinitive	you not said here					carefully property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Ride on the grass behind them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 grass	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ride	nmod
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grass	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Shout loudly so that they jump aside out of his way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shout	shout	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Shout	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 jump	mark
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 so	fixed
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 jump	nsubj
6	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Shout	advcl
7	aside	aside	ADV	_	6 jump	advmod
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 way	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 way	nmod:poss
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	imperative	you not said here					loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	jump	present	they			his way		aside property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out way=Trajectory

Option 4

Squeeze between them at full speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Squeeze	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	between	between	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Squeeze	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 speed	case
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 speed	amod
6	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Squeeze	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze	imperative	you not said here					between them = they; at full speed	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at speed=Theme

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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