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Test 3 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and road signs

A speed sign in Canada says 50 and one in the USA says 50. Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: speed sign, 50 · What happens: say, be · To what, where: 50 · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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 speed sign in Canada says 50 and one in the USA says 50.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sign	det
2	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sign	compound
3	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 Canada	case
5	Canada	Canada	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sign	nmod
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 says	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 one	cc
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 50	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 USA	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 USA	det
12	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 one	nmod
13	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
14	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 says	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	a speed sign in Canada						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	say speech: assert	present	50	50					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent 50=Topic

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: Which is true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

The Canadian limit is faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 limit	det
2	Canadian	Canadian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 limit	amod
3	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faster	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 faster	cop
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Canadian limit					fast property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The US limit is faster, because it is in miles per hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 limit	det
2	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 limit	compound
3	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faster	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 faster	cop
5	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 miles	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 miles	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 miles	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 miles	cop
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 miles	case
11	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 faster	obl
12	per	per	ADP	_	13 hour	case
13	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 miles	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the US limit					fast property	tree rules
2	is	present	limit				hour	in miles	tree rules

Option 3

They are exactly the same speed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 speed	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 speed	cop
3	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	6 speed	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 speed	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 speed	amod
6	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	They	the same speed				exactly property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Speed signs mean the same everywhere in the world, whatever the country

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 signs	compound
2	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 mean	nsubj
3	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 same	det
5	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mean	obj
6	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 mean	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 world	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 everywhere	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 whatever	punct
11	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 mean	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 country	det
13	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 whatever	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	Speed signs	the same				everywhere property	tree rules

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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