Test 7 · ★ · Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing

Why is a sledding hill that ends at a road a bad choice?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sledding hill · What happens: be, end · To what, where: sledding hill, bad choice, road

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 250 «Gymnastics, trampolines, winter fun and fishing» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 hill	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hill	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hill	det
4	sledding	sledding	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hill	compound
5	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 ends	nsubj
7	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hill	acl:relcl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ends	obl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 choice	det
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 choice	amod
13	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ends	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a sledding hill					tree rules
2	end	present	a sledding hill	a bad choice		a road			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality choice=Eventuality

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

Sleds cannot cross roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sleds	sled	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 cross	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 cross	advmod
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 cross	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cross	can	Sleds	roads					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient

Option 2

The road makes the sled slower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	nsubj
3	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sled	det
5	sled	sled	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 makes	obj
6	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	the road	the sled				slow property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sled=Product

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

You may slide into traffic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 slide	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 slide	aux
3	slide	slide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	5 traffic	case
5	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slide	may	You			traffic			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into traffic=Destination

Option 4

The snow there is too soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 is	nsubj
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 soft	advmod
6	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 is	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	the snow			there		soft property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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