Test 8 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

Why should you not run across a road even if no car is near?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, car · What happens: not run, be · To what, where: road

This is test 8 · ★ 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	5 run	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 run	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 run	advmod
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	obl
9	even	even	ADV	_	14 near	advmod
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 near	mark
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 car	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 near	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 near	cop
14	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 run	advcl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not run	should	you			a road			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	no car					near property	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

You can trip and cannot react if a car appears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 trip	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 trip	aux
3	trip	trip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 react	cc
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 react	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 react	advmod
7	react	react	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trip	conj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 appears	mark
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 car	det
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 appears	nsubj
11	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 react	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	trip	can	You	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not react	can	You not said here	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	appear a condition, not said to happen	present	a car	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Running makes cars speed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 makes	obj
4	speed	speed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 speed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	run	gerund			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	present		cars	tree rules
3	speed up	infinitive	cars not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Running across roads is slower than walking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 slower	csubj
2	across	across	ADP	_	3 roads	case
3	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Running	obl
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slower	cop
5	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	7 walking	mark
7	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 slower	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	run	gerund		roads		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across road=Trajectory
2	is	present	Running		slow property	tree rules
3	walk	gerund	Running not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Drivers only stop for people who walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 stop	advmod
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	obl
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 walk	nsubj
7	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 people	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Drivers					for people	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	walk	present	people						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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