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Test 9 · ★ · Walking on the pavement and crossing roads

A boy in Glasgow stands right at the kerb on a rainy day. What is likely to happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: stand, be, happen · To what, where: kerb

This is test 9 · ★ 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 boy in Glasgow stands right at the kerb on a rainy day.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stands	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Glasgow	case
4	Glasgow	Glasgow	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	right	right	ADV	_	5 stands	advmod
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 kerb	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 kerb	det
9	kerb	kerb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stands	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	13 day	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 day	det
12	rainy	rainy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 day	amod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kerb	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stands	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a boy in Glasgow			the kerb on a rainy day		right property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at kerb=Location

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 is likely to happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 likely	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 likely	cop
3	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 happen	mark
5	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 likely	xcomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						likely property	tree rules
2	happen	to-infinitive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A passing car may splash him with puddle water

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	passing	passing	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 car	compound
3	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 splash	nsubj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 splash	aux
5	splash	splash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 splash	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 water	case
8	puddle	puddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 water	compound
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 splash	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash	may	a passing car		him = he			with puddle water	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with water=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cars will stop to let him stay dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stop	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	future	Cars						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	let	to-infinitive	Cars not said here	him = he					tree rules
3	stay	infinitive	him = he not said here					dry property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The rain will stop sooner for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rain	det
2	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 stop	advmod
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	future	the rain					for him = he; soon property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Nothing, because cars always steer around puddles near the kerb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 steer	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 steer	mark
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 steer	nsubj
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 steer	advmod
6	steer	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Nothing	conj
7	around	around	ADP	_	8 puddles	case
8	puddles	puddle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 steer	obl
9	near	near	ADP	_	11 kerb	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kerb	det
11	kerb	kerb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 puddles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steer	present	cars			puddles near the kerb		always property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent around puddle=Destination

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