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Test 2 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and road signs

A girl hears a crossing start to beep fast. What does it mean?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, start · What happens: hear, beep, mean · To what, where: crossing start

This is test 2 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl hears a crossing start to beep fast.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hears	nsubj
3	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 start	det
5	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 start	compound
6	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hears	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 beep	mark
8	beep	beep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 start	acl
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 beep	advmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	a girl	a crossing start					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer start=Stimulus
2	beep	to-infinitive	a girl not said here	a crossing start not said here				fast property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 does it mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mean	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · do-support	start						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The green figure is on and it is safe to cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 figure	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 figure	amod
3	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 on	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 on	cop
5	on	on	ADV	_	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 safe	cc
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 safe	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 safe	cop
9	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 on	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cross	mark
11	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 safe	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the green figure					on property	tree rules
2	is	present	it					safe property	tree rules
3	cross	to-infinitive							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The lights are broken and need fixing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lights	det
2	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 broken	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	aux:pass
4	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 need	cc
6	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 broken	conj
7	fixing	fixing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present · passive		the lights					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	need	present		fixing					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot fixing=Theme

Option 3

The cars have just got a green light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cars	det
2	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 light	det
7	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 light	amod
8	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present · perfect	the cars	a green light					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus

Option 4

A fire engine is coming down the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 engine	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 engine	compound
3	engine	engine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 coming	aux
5	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coming	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come down	present · progressive	a fire engine	the road					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location road=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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