Test 13 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

dad's texting while driving 🙄

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: texting · What happens: drive

This is test 13 · ★★ of lesson 268 «In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers» 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	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 texting	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 dad	case
3	texting	texting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	5 driving	mark
5	driving	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 texting	acl
6	🙄	🙄	PUNCT	_	3 texting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	gerund	dad's texting not said here						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

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 · ✓ the right answer

Kindly remind him it's dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kindly	kindly	ADV	_	2 remind	advmod
2	remind	remind	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 remind	iobj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dangerous	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dangerous	cop
6	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 remind	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	remind speech: other	imperative	you not said here		him = he			kindly property	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is	present	it					dangerous property	tree rules

Option 2

Read the messages to him loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 messages	det
3	messages	message	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Read	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Read	obl
6	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 Read	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here	the messages	him = he			loudly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent message=Topic to he=Recipient

Option 3

Grab the phone off him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 phone	det
3	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Grab	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Grab	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	the phone				off him = he	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent phone=Theme off he=Source

Option 4

Ask him to text faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ask	obj
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 text	case
4	text	text	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
5	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 text	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		him = he				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	text not said to happen	infinitive	you not said here					fast 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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