Test 6 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and road signs

Near a school at 3 o'clock, why do cars drive slower?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: cars · What happens: drive · To what, where: school

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Near	near	ADP	_	3 school	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 school	det
3	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drive	obl
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 o'clock	case
5	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 o'clock	nummod
6	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 school	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 school	punct
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 drive	advmod
9	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 drive	aux
10	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 drive	nsubj
11	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	11 drive	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 drive	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present · do-support	cars			a school at 3 o'clock		slow property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: 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.

The options

Option 1

Cars always slow down when it is afternoon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 slow	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 slow	advmod
3	slow	slow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 slow	compound:prt
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 afternoon	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 afternoon	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 afternoon	cop
8	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow down	present	Cars					always property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is a	present	it	afternoon					tree rules

Option 2

The road is always narrower near schools, so cars must slow down for it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 narrower	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 narrower	cop
4	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	5 narrower	advmod
5	narrower	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	near	near	ADP	_	7 schools	case
7	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 narrower	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 slow	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 slow	advmod
10	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 slow	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 slow	aux
12	slow	slow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 narrower	parataxis
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 slow	compound:prt
14	for	for	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 slow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the road			schools		always, narrow property	tree rules
2	slow down	must	cars					for road	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A school zone lowers the speed limit while children are near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 zone	det
2	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 zone	compound
3	zone	zone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lowers	nsubj
4	lowers	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 limit	det
6	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 limit	compound
7	limit	limit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lowers	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 children	case
9	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 near	obl
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 near	cop
11	near	near	ADV	_	4 lowers	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lower	present	a school zone	the speed limit					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Theme
2	is	present						while children; near property	tree rules

Option 4

Drivers like to look at the school

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 look	mark
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 like	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 school	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 school	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Drivers						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	Drivers not said here					at the school	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at school=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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