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Test 9 · ★★ · Snow, ice and strong sun

A skater glides the wrong way round a busy rink. What is the risk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: skater, risk · What happens: glide, be · To what, where: wrong way, busy rink

This is test 9 · ★★ of lesson 234 «Snow, ice and strong sun» 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 skater glides the wrong way round a busy rink.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 skater	det
2	skater	skater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glides	nsubj
3	glides	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glides	obj
7	round	round	ADP	_	10 rink	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rink	det
9	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rink	amod
10	rink	rink	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 glides	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 glides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide	present	a skater	the wrong way		a busy rink			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme round rink=Trajectory

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 is the risk?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 risk	det
4	risk	risk	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the risk						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The skates will break

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 skates	det
2	skates	skate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 break	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 break	aux
4	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	future	the skates						vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Nothing, as long as she skates fast enough to dodge them all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 skates	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 skates	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 skates	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 skates	nsubj
7	skates	skate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 skates	advmod
9	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 skates	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 dodge	mark
11	dodge	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 skates	advcl
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 dodge	obj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 them	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skate	present	Nothing					enough, fast, long property	vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	dodge	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here	them = they					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location

Option 3

The ice will melt faster under her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ice	det
2	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 melt	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 melt	aux
4	melt	melt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 melt	advmod
6	under	under	ADP	_	7 her	case
7	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 melt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	melt	future	the ice					under her = she; fast property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Crashing into others whose sharp blades can cut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crashing	crash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 cut	csubj
2	into	into	ADP	_	3 others	case
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crashing	obl
4	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	6 blades	nmod:poss
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 blades	amod
6	blades	blade	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 others	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	aux
8	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crash	gerund						into others others others's sharp blades's sharp blades result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into other=Result
2	cut	can	Crashing						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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