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Test 1 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

A girl in Toronto is playing catch near the road and the ball bounces into the street. What should she have done?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, catch · What happens: play, bounce, do · To what, where: street

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 266 «Walking on the pavement and crossing roads» 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: A girl in Toronto is playing catch near the road and the ball bounces into the street.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 playing	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Toronto	case
4	Toronto	Toronto	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 playing	aux
6	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bounces	nsubj
8	near	near	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catch	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 ball	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ball	det
13	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 road	conj
14	bounces	bounce	VERB	Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 playing	parataxis
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 street	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 street	det
17	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bounces	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 playing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · progressive	a girl in Toronto						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	bounce	present	catch near the road and the ball			the street			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into street=Destination

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 should she have done?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 done	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 done	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 done	nsubj
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 done	aux
5	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should · perfect	catch						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Played with a smaller ball

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	5 ball	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ball	det
4	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 ball	amod
5	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle						with a smaller ball	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ball=Theme

Option 2

Thrown the ball more gently on the sidewalk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thrown	thrown	ADP	_	3 ball	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ball	det
3	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 gently	advmod
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 ball	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 sidewalk	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sidewalk	det
8	sidewalk	sidewalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ball	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Run after the ball as quickly as she could, before a car came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	4 ball	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 quickly	advmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 could	mark
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 could	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 quickly	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 came	punct
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 came	mark
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 car	det
13	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	nsubj
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here				after the ball	quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	past	a car						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Played in a park or yard, away from the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 park	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 park	det
4	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Played	obl
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 yard	cc
6	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 park	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 away	punct
8	away	away	ADV	_	1 Played	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 road	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 road	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 away	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	participle				a park or yard		away property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: 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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