Test 3 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

Which is true about a car travelling fast?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: car · What happens: be, travel

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 car	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 true	obl
7	travelling	travel	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 car	acl
8	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 travelling	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about a car; true property	tree rules
2	travel	gerund	a car not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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

Cars stop more quickly when it rains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stop	nsubj
2	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 quickly	advmod
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 stop	advmod
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 rains	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rains	nsubj
7	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 stop	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Cars					quickly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	rain	present	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Even if the driver sees you, they may not stop in time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Even	even	ADV	_	5 sees	advmod
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 sees	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 driver	det
4	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	nsubj
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 sees	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stop	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stop	nsubj
9	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 stop	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 stop	advmod
11	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 sees	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 time	case
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	the driver	you					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	not stop	may	they				time		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3

A fast car is easier to stop than a slow one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 car	det
2	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 car	amod
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 easier	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 easier	cop
5	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 easier	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	11 one	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 easier	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a fast car					than a slow one; easy property	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	a fast car not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

It can stop at once if the driver brakes hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stop	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 stop	obl
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 brakes	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 driver	det
8	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brakes	nsubj
9	brakes	brake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	advcl
10	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 brakes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	can	It						vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location
2	brake a condition, not said to happen	present	the driver					hard property	tree rules

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