Test 11 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

car backing out of the driveway, i'm on the pavement

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: car, i · What happens: back out, be · To what, where: driveway, pavement

This is test 11 · ★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	backing	back	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 car	acl
3	out	out	ADP	_	6 driveway	case
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 driveway	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 driveway	det
6	driveway	driveway	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 backing	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 pavement	punct
8	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 pavement	nsubj
9	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 pavement	cop
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 pavement	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 pavement	det
12	pavement	pavement	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 car	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	back out	gerund	car and the pavement not said here	the driveway					tree rules
2	is	present	i			the pavement			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

Wave and keep walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 keep	cc
3	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wave	conj
4	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	wave	imperative	you not said here	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	keep	infinitive	you not said here	tree rules
3	walk	gerund	you not said here	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Run past behind it quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	past	past	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
3	behind	behind	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Run	obl
5	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run past	imperative	you not said here			it		past, quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind it=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stop and let it pass

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 let	cc
3	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp

#	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	let	infinitive	you not said here	it	tree rules
3	pass	infinitive			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Knock on the window to say hello

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Knock	knock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 window	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 window	det
4	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Knock	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 say	mark
6	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Knock	advcl
7	hello	hello	INTJ	_	6 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	imperative	you not said here			the window			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on window=Location
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hello=Topic

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