Test 9 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and road signs

Why is it important that crossings have sounds and spinning cones?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crossings · What happens: be, have, spin · To what, where: sounds

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 important	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 important	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 important	expl
4	important	important	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 have	mark
6	crossings	crossing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	nsubj
7	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 important	ccomp
8	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 cones	cc
10	spinning	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cones	amod
11	cones	cone	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sounds	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 important	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present			important property	tree rules
2	have	present	crossings	sounds and spinning cones		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Patient
3	spin	gerund				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

So drivers know when to speed up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 know	advmod
2	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 know	nsubj
3	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 speed	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speed	mark
6	speed	speed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 know	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 speed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	drivers						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	speed up	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

So the lights work in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 work	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lights	det
3	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 work	nsubj
4	work	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 dark	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dark	det
7	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	the lights					in the dark	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dark=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So blind and deafblind people can cross safely too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	2 blind	advmod
2	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 deafblind	cc
4	deafblind	deafblind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 blind	conj
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cross	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 cross	aux
7	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	safely	safely	ADV	_	7 cross	advmod
9	too	too	ADV	_	7 cross	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	can	blind people					safely property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

So children have something fun to play with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 have	advmod
2	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 have	obj
5	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 something	amod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 play	mark
7	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 fun	xcomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	7 play	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	children	something					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient
2	play	to-infinitive	something not said here						vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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