Test 12 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

dropped my hat in the middle of the road while crossing!

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: drop, cross · To what, where: hat, middle

This is test 12 · ★ 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	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hat	nmod:poss
3	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 road	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 road	det
9	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 crossing	mark
11	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 dropped	advcl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past		my hat		the middle of the road			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hat=Theme in middle=Destination
2	cross	gerund							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Stop and pick it up

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 pick	cc
3	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pick	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 pick	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	pick up	infinitive	you not said here	it					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

Run back for it now before a car squashes it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Run	obl
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Run	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 squashes	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 squashes	nsubj
9	squashes	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 squashes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run back	imperative	you not said here				now	for it	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for it=Beneficiary
2	squash	present	a car	it					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument it=Patient

Option 3

Kick it to the other side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kick	kick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kick	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 side	amod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Kick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	imperative	you not said here	it				to the other side result	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to side=Result

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Leave it, finish crossing, get it later when safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 finish	punct
4	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
5	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 finish	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 get	punct
7	get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	obj
9	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 get	advmod
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 safe	advmod
11	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	finish	infinitive	you not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	cross	gerund	you not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	get	infinitive	you not said here	it	late, safe property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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