Test 4 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and road signs

Which sign is most likely to forbid something?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sign · What happens: be, forbid · To what, where: something

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 likely	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 likely	cop
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 likely	advmod
5	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 forbid	mark
7	forbid	forbid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 likely	xcomp
8	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 forbid	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 likely	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	which sign					likely property	tree rules
2	forbid	to-infinitive	which sign not said here	something					vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer something=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.

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

A sign with a red circle on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 circle	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 circle	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 circle	amod
6	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sign	nmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 circle	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A sign showing a picture of a bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 sign	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 picture	det
5	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showing	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 bed	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bed	det
8	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 picture	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund	a sign not said here	a picture of a bed					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent picture=Recipient

Option 3

A sign with the name of a street

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 name	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 name	det
5	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sign	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 street	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 street	det
8	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 name	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	name			a street					nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

A sign with an arrow to a nearby town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sign	det
2	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 arrow	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 arrow	det
5	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sign	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 town	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 town	det
8	nearby	nearby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 town	amod
9	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 arrow	nmod

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

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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