Test 13 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and road signs

road's a shortcut but it's a motorway, can we walk along the side

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: road, we · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: shortcut, motorway, side

This is test 13 · ★ 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	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shortcut	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shortcut	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 shortcut	det
4	shortcut	shortcut	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 motorway	cc
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 motorway	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 motorway	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 motorway	det
9	motorway	motorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shortcut	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 walk	punct
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 walk	aux
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 walk	nsubj
13	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 shortcut	parataxis
14	along	along	ADP	_	16 side	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 side	det
16	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	road	a shortcut but a motorway		tree rules
2	is a	present	road	a motorway		tree rules
3	walk	can	we		the side	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along 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.

The options

Option 1

Yes, if you're quick and wear something bright

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 quick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 quick	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 quick	nsubj
5	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quick	cop
6	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wear	cc
8	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 quick	conj
9	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 wear	obj
10	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 something	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you					quick property	tree rules
2	wear	infinitive	you not said here	something					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent something=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, never walk on a motorway

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 walk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 walk	advmod
4	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 motorway	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 motorway	det
7	motorway	motorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not walk	imperative	you not said here			a motorway			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on motorway=Trajectory

Option 3

Yes, on the edge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 edge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 edge	punct
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 edge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 edge	det
5	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Only in the daytime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 daytime	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 daytime	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 daytime	det
4	daytime	daytime	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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