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Test 2 · ★★ · In the car: seat belts, car seats and good passengers

A cyclist rides past just as a passenger flings the car door open. Which habit would have helped?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cyclist, passenger, habit · What happens: ride, fling, help · To what, where: car door

This is test 2 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A cyclist rides past just as a passenger flings the car door open.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cyclist	det
2	cyclist	cyclist	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rides	nsubj
3	rides	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADV	_	3 rides	advmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	9 flings	advmod
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 flings	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 passenger	det
8	passenger	passenger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flings	nsubj
9	flings	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rides	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
11	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 door	compound
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flings	obj
13	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flings	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rides	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	present	a cyclist					past property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	fling	present	a passenger	the car door				open property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=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.

Sentence 2: Which habit would have helped?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 habit	det
2	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 helped	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 helped	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 helped	aux
5	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 helped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	would · perfect	which habit						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

The Dutch reach, which turns you to look back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 reach	det
2	Dutch	dutch	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reach	amod
3	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turns	punct
5	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 turns	nsubj
6	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reach	acl:relcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 turns	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 look	mark
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 turns	advcl
10	back	back	ADV	_	9 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	the Dutch reach	you					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme you=Result
2	look back	to-infinitive	the Dutch reach not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Opening the door with the near hand, then checking the mirror

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Opening	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hand	det
6	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Opening	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 checking	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 checking	advmod
10	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Opening	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mirror	det
12	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 checking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	gerund		the door				with the near hand	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent door=Patient with hand=Instrument
2	check	gerund		the mirror			then		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mirror=Theme

Option 3

Honking the horn before opening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honking	honk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horn	det
3	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Honking	obj
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	5 opening	mark
5	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Honking	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honk	gerund		the horn					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horn=Theme
2	open	gerund							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Opening the door faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Opening	obj
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Opening	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	gerund		the door				fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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