Test 17 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

Why are children hit so often when they step out between parked cars?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: children · What happens: hit, step out, park · To what, where: children, parked cars

This is test 17 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 hit	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux:pass
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hit	nsubj:pass
4	hit	hit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 often	advmod
6	often	often	ADV	_	4 hit	advmod
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 step	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 step	nsubj
9	step	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 step	compound:prt
11	between	between	ADP	_	13 cars	case
12	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 cars	amod
13	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 step	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hit	present · passive		children		often property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme
2	step out	present	children = child		parked cars		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between car=Trajectory
3	park	participle					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Children are always seen there, as drivers look out for them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 seen	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	aux:pass
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 seen	advmod
4	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 seen	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 look	mark
8	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seen	conj
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 look	compound:prt
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 them	case
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present · passive		Children		there		always property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	look out	present	drivers					for Children = child	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for they=Theme

Option 2

Parked cars make roads wider

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 cars	amod
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	nsubj
3	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 make	obj
5	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	park	participle							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Parked cars	roads				wide property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material road=Product

Option 3

Drivers go faster near parked cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	nsubj
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 go	advmod
4	near	near	ADP	_	6 cars	case
5	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 cars	amod
6	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Drivers			parked cars		fast property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near car=Location
2	park	participle							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Drivers cannot see them until it is too late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 see	advmod
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 see	obj
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 late	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 late	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 late	cop
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 late	advmod
10	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	Drivers	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	is	present	it					late property	tree rules

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