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Test 5 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

Walking to school in Perth, a group of friends meets a man using a white cane on a narrow footpath. What should they do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Walking, man, friends · What happens: walk, meet, use, do · To what, where: Perth, man, white cane, narrow footpath

This is test 5 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Walking to school in Perth, a group of friends meets a man using a white cane on a narrow footpath.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 meets	csubj
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 school	case
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walking	obl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Perth	case
5	Perth	Perth	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Walking	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 group	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 group	det
8	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 Perth	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 friends	case
10	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 group	nmod
11	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meets	obj
14	using	use	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 man	acl
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cane	det
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cane	amod
17	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 using	obj
18	on	on	ADP	_	21 footpath	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 footpath	det
20	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 footpath	amod
21	footpath	footpath	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 using	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 meets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund				Perth		to school result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to school=Result
2	meet	present	Walking	a man					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent
3	use	gerund	a man not said here	a white cane		a narrow footpath			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cane=Patient

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.

Sentence 2: What should they do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	friends = friend						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Call out to him to move to the edge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Call	call	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Call	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Call	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 move	mark
6	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Call	advcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 edge	det
9	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		him = he			out property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
2	move	to-infinitive	you not said here			the edge			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to edge=Trajectory

Option 2

Walk faster to get past him first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Walk	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 get	mark
4	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Walk	advcl
5	past	past	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 get	obl
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	to-infinitive	you not said here					past him = he; first property	vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme past he=Destination

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

Go into single file and step aside so he can pass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 file	case
3	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 file	amod
4	file	file	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 step	cc
6	step	step	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	conj
7	aside	aside	ADV	_	6 step	advmod
8	so	so	SCONJ	_	11 pass	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 pass	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 pass	aux
11	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 step	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			single file			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into file=Initial_Location
2	step	infinitive	you not said here					aside property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pass	can	he						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Keep walking together; he will hear them coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Keep	xcomp
3	together	together	ADV	_	2 walking	advmod
4	;	;	PUNCT	_	7 hear	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	nsubj
6	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 hear	aux
7	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Keep	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hear	obj
9	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 hear	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	walk	gerund	you not said here					together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hear	future	he	them = they					tree rules
4	come	gerund	them = they not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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