Test 8 · ★ · Rain, floods and storms

On a rainy walk to school, why is it safer to walk away from the kerb?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: it · What happens: be, walk away · To what, where: rainy walk, kerb

This is test 8 · ★ 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 walk	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 walk	det
3	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 walk	amod
4	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 safer	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 school	case
6	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 safer	advmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 safer	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 safer	nsubj
11	safer	safe	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 walk	mark
13	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 safer	xcomp
14	away	away	ADV	_	13 walk	advmod
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 kerb	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 kerb	det
17	kerb	kerb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	obl
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 safer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it			a rainy walk to school		safe property	tree rules
2	walk away	to-infinitive				the kerb		away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from kerb=Source

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

Drivers see you much better when it is raining

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	obj
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 better	advmod
5	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 see	xcomp
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 raining	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 raining	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 raining	aux
9	raining	rain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 see	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	Drivers	you				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	rain	present · progressive	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2

Puddles are always deeper away from the road, so it is drier there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Puddles	puddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 deeper	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 deeper	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 deeper	advmod
4	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 deeper	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 away	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 drier	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	13 drier	advmod
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 drier	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 drier	cop
13	drier	dry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 deeper	conj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 deeper	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Puddles			there		always, away, deep property	tree rules
2	is	present	road					dry property	tree rules

Option 3

The pavement is always drier near the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pavement	det
2	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drier	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drier	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 drier	advmod
5	drier	dry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the pavement			the road		always, dry property	tree rules

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

Cars splash and need longer to stop on wet roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 splash	nsubj
2	splash	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 need	cc
4	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 splash	conj
5	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 need	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 need	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 roads	case
9	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 roads	amod
10	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	splash	present	Cars			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present	Cars not said here		long property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cars not said here	wet roads		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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