Exam question 1 · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

Identify the correct manner of crossing a road.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, correct manner · What happens: identify, cross · To what, where: correct manner, road

This is exam question 1 of lesson 266 «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 manner	det
3	correct	correct	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 manner	amod
4	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
5	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 crossing	mark
6	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 manner	acl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crossing	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the correct manner					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent manner=Theme
2	cross	gerund	the correct manner not said here	a road					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient

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

Crossing while looking at a phone, provided one walks quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 walks	csubj
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	3 looking	mark
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Crossing	advcl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 phone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 phone	det
6	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looking	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 provided	punct
8	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Crossing	conj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 provided	obj
10	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 walks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund			at a phone	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at phone=Theme
3	provide	past		one		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition one=Theme
4	walk	present	Crossing		quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stopping, looking and walking, never running

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stopping	stop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 looking	punct
3	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stopping	conj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 walking	cc
5	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 looking	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 running	punct
7	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	8 running	advmod
8	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stopping	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	roles by
1	stop	gerund	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	look	gerund	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	walk	gerund	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not run	gerund	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Running so as to cross quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	1 Running	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 cross	mark
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cross	mark
5	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Running	advcl
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 cross	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cross	to-infinitive						quickly property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Crossing between parked cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	between	between	ADP	_	4 cars	case
3	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cars	amod
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crossing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund						between parked cars	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	park	participle							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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