Test 15 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and road signs

Why is a turning truck so dangerous for someone on the crossing?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: turning truck · What happens: be

This is test 15 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 dangerous	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dangerous	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 truck	det
4	turning	turning	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 truck	compound
5	truck	truck	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dangerous	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 dangerous	advmod
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 someone	case
9	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 dangerous	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 crossing	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crossing	det
12	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 someone	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 dangerous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a turning truck					for someone; dangerous 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

The driver may not see you beside or in front of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 driver	det
2	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
3	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 see	advmod
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 see	obj
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	10 front	case
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 front	cc
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 front	case
10	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 it	case
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	may	the driver	you		front of front			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The driver can see everyone from up high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 driver	det
2	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 see	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 see	aux
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 see	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 high	case
7	up	up	ADV	_	8 high	advmod
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	the driver	everyone		high			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everyone=Stimulus

Option 3

Trucks turn very slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trucks	truck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 turn	nsubj
2	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 slowly	advmod
4	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	Trucks					slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Trucks always stop for walkers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trucks	truck	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 stop	advmod
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 walkers	case
5	walkers	walker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Trucks					for walkers; always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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