Test 11 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and road signs

pressed the button like 10 times, it's still red

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: button · What happens: press, be · To what, where: button

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 267 «Traffic lights, crossings and road signs» 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	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 button	det
3	button	button	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 pressed	obj
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 times	case
5	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pressed	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 red	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 red	nsubj
9	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 red	cop
10	still	still	ADV	_	11 red	advmod
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 pressed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	past		the button			time		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme
2	is	present	button				still	red 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

Go anyway, it's broken

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 broken	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 broken	nsubj:pass
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 broken	aux:pass
6	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Go	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here					anyway property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	break	present · passive		it					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Hold it down for a full minute till it changes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hold	obj
3	down	down	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 minute	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 minute	det
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 minute	amod
7	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
8	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 changes	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 changes	nsubj
10	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold down	imperative	you not said here	it			minute		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	change	present	it						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Press once and wait, more presses don't help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Press	press	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	1 Press	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wait	cc
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Press	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 help	punct
6	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 presses	amod
7	presses	press	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 help	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 help	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 help	advmod
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Press	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not help	present · do-support	more presses						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Press it 20 more times

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Press	press	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Press	obj
3	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Press	obj
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 times	amod
5	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Press	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	press	imperative	you not said here	it			time		vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent it=Theme 20=Result

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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