Test 14 · ★ · Getting ready for school and the school day

bus is pulling up across the road, gonna leg it over

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bus · What happens: pull up, leg · To what, where: road

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 253 «Getting ready for school and the school day» 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	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulling	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pulling	aux
3	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pulling	compound:prt
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulling	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 leg	punct
9	gonna	gonna	X	_	10 leg	compound
10	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pulling	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 leg	nsubj
12	over	over	ADP	_	3 pulling	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull up	present · progressive	bus			the road			vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leg		bus						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

Stop and look both ways; better to miss the bus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 look	cc
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 ways	det
5	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	obl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 better	punct
7	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 Stop	parataxis
8	to	to	PART	_	9 miss	mark
9	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 better	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bus	det
11	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 miss	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	look	infinitive	you not said here	both ways	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	miss	to-infinitive	you not said here	the bus	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bus=Stimulus

Option 2

Run, cars always stop for school kids near buses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 kids	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kids	compound
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	obl
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 buses	case
10	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 kids	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	stop	present	cars					for school kids near buses; always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

Run but wave ur arms so all the cars can see you coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 wave	cc
3	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	conj
4	ur	your	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 arms	nmod:poss
5	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wave	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	11 see	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 cars	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cars	det
9	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 see	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 see	aux
11	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wave	advcl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 see	obj
13	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 see	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wave	infinitive	you not said here	ur's arms	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
3	see	can	all cars	you	tree rules
4	come	gerund	you not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Run, the driver always waits for kids who are running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 waits	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 driver	det
4	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 waits	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 waits	advmod
6	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 kids	case
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 waits	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 running	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 running	aux
11	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 kids	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wait	present	the driver	for kids; always property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	present · progressive	kids		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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