Test 15 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

can i text while crossing, it's a small road

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: i, it · What happens: text, cross, be · To what, where: small road

This is test 15 · ★ 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	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 text	aux
2	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 text	nsubj
3	text	text	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 crossing	mark
5	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 text	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 text	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 road	nsubj
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 road	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 road	det
10	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 road	amod
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 text	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	text	can	i		tree rules
2	cross	gerund	i not said here		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a	present	it	a small road	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 · ✓ the right answer

No, phone away, look and listen till you're across

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 phone	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	nsubj
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 phone	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 listen	cc
8	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 look	conj
9	till	till	ADP	_	10 you	case
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 look	obl
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 across	cop
12	across	across	ADV	_	10 you	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	look	infinitive	phone	till you		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	listen	infinitive	phone not said here			vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
3	is	present			across property	tree rules

Option 2

Yes, if you walk fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 walk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 walk	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 walk	nsubj
5	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	you					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yes, if you keep one earbud out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 keep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 keep	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 earbud	nummod
7	earbud	earbud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	out	out	ADV	_	5 keep	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep out	present	you	one earbud				out property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent earbud=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, small roads have no cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 have	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 roads	amod
4	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 cars	det
7	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	small roads	no cars					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient

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