Test 17 · ★ · Rain, floods and storms

did u hear a guy drove his ute (a small pickup truck) through the flooded road and it just floated off, they had to get him out by helicopter? real lesson?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: u, guy, ute, they · What happens: hear, drive, flood, float off, have, get out · To what, where: ute, flooded road, guy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 17 · ★ of lesson 235 «Rain, floods and storms» 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 guy	det
5	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drove	nsubj
6	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	ccomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ute	nmod:poss
8	ute	ute	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drove	obj
9	(	(	PUNCT	_	13 truck	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 truck	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 truck	amod
12	pickup	pickup	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 truck	compound
13	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ute	appos
14	)	)	PUNCT	_	13 truck	punct
15	through	through	ADP	_	18 road	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 road	det
17	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 road	amod
18	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 drove	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 floated	cc
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 floated	nsubj
21	just	just	ADV	_	22 floated	advmod
22	floated	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 drove	conj
23	off	off	ADP	_	22 floated	compound:prt
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 get	mark
28	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 had	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 get	obj
30	out	out	ADP	_	28 get	compound:prt
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 helicopter	case
32	helicopter	helicopter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	35 lesson	punct
34	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 lesson	amod
35	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 get	obl
36	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	drive	past	a guy	guy's ute	the flooded road		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ute=Theme through road=Trajectory
3	flood	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	float off	past	ute				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	have	past	they				tree rules
6	get out	to-infinitive	they not said here	guy		by helicopter; real lesson obl	tree rules

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

Turn around; never drive or walk through floodwater

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 drive	punct
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 drive	advmod
5	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Turn	conj
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 walk	cc
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Turn	conj
8	through	through	ADP	_	9 floodwater	case
9	floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	turn around	imperative	you not said here		around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	not drive	infinitive	you not said here			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	walk	infinitive	you not said here	floodwater		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through floodwater=Trajectory

Option 2

Only small cars float, not big ones like utes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 cars	advmod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cars	amod
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 float	nsubj
4	float	float	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 ones	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 ones	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 float	obj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 utes	case
10	utes	ute	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ones	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	float	present	small cars	big ones				like utes	vn run-51.3.2-2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location one=Theme

Option 3

Floodwater is fine if it's shallow-looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Floodwater	floodwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fine	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fine	cop
3	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 looking	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 looking	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 looking	aux
7	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looking	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 shallow	punct
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fine	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Floodwater					fine property	tree rules
2	look a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	Floodwater						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Drive fast so the car doesn't have time to float

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Drive	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 have	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 car	det
5	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 have	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 have	advmod
8	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Drive	advcl
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 float	mark
11	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 time	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	drive	imperative	you not said here		fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	not have	present · do-support	the car	time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	float	to-infinitive	the car not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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