Test 8 · ★ · Getting ready for school and the school day
Two children race each other down a crowded corridor. What can happen?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two children · What happens: race down, happen · To what, where: each
This is test 8 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Two children race each other down a crowded corridor.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 children | nummod |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 race | nsubj |
| 3 | race | race | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 3 race | obj |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 each | fixed |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 race | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 corridor | det |
| 8 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 corridor | amod |
| 9 | corridor | corridor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 race | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 race | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | race down | present | Two children | each | a crowded corridor obl | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Agent |
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 can happen?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 happen | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 happen | aux |
| 3 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 happen | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | can | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
They will reach class early with no risk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reach | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 reach | aux |
| 3 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | class | class | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reach | obj |
| 5 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 reach | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 risk | case |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 risk | det |
| 8 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reach | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | future | They | class | with no risk; early property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent class=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
They can crash into others and fall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 crash | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 crash | aux |
| 3 | crash | crash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 others | case |
| 5 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 crash | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fall | cc |
| 7 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 crash | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash | can | They | into others result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into other=Result | ||||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | They not said here | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nothing, corridors are wide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 corridors | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nothing | punct |
| 3 | corridors | corridor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wide | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wide | cop |
| 5 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Nothing corridors | wide property | tree rules |
Option 4
The teacher will give them a medal
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 teacher | det |
| 2 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 medal | det |
| 7 | medal | medal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | the teacher | a medal | them = they | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient medal=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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