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Test 7 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

A small boy in Phoenix wants to walk on the road side of his mother. Why should she keep him on the inside?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: small boy, Phoenix · What happens: want, walk, keep · To what, where: road side, boy, inside

This is test 7 · ★ 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: A small boy in Phoenix wants to walk on the road side of his mother.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wants	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Phoenix	case
5	Phoenix	Phoenix	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 boy	nmod
6	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 walk	mark
8	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 wants	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 side	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 side	det
11	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 side	compound
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 walk	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 mother	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 side	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wants	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	a small boy in Phoenix						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	walk not said to happen	to-infinitive	a small boy in Phoenix not said here			the road side of boy's mother			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory

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: Why should she keep him on the inside?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 keep	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 inside	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 inside	det
8	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should	Phoenix	boy		the inside			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme on inside=Location

The options

Option 1

Cars like to see children on the road side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 like	xcomp
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 see	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 side	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 side	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 side	compound
9	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Cars						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	Cars not said here	children		the road side			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

It is easier to hold his hand there

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 easier	expl
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 easier	cop
3	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 hold	mark
5	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 easier	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hold	obj
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 hold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						easy property	tree rules
2	hold	to-infinitive		his hand		there			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

Option 3

Children walk faster on the inside, away from the noise of the cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 walk	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 inside	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 inside	det
6	inside	inside	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 away	punct
8	away	away	ADV	_	2 walk	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 noise	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 noise	det
11	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 away	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 cars	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 cars	det
14	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 noise	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Children			the inside		away, fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on inside=Trajectory
2	noise		the cars						nom noise «event intransitive»: of=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Small children can dart into the road without warning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 children	amod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dart	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 dart	aux
4	dart	dart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 road	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dart	obl
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 warning	case
9	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dart	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dart	can	Small children			the road		without warning	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination

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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