Test 16 · ★ · Crash forces, school buses and public buses

why do kids get hurt near school buses not on them mostly

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: hurt · To what, where: kids, school buses

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 269 «Crash forces, school buses and public buses» 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	5 hurt	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hurt	aux
3	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurt	nsubj:pass
4	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 hurt	aux:pass
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 buses	case
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 buses	compound
8	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurt	obl
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 them	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 hurt	obl
12	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	5 hurt	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present · passive · do-support		kids		school buses		on buses = bus; mostly property	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

Buses drive faster than cars do, even near schools and in towns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drive	nsubj
2	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 drive	advmod
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 do	mark
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 drive	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 schools	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	10 schools	advmod
9	near	near	ADP	_	10 schools	case
10	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 drive	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 towns	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 towns	case
13	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 schools	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	present	Buses			schools and towns		fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	do	present	cars						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The buses are older than cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 buses	det
2	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 older	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 older	cop
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	ADP	_	6 cars	case
6	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 older	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the buses					than cars; old property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

They step into blind spots or out from behind the bus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 step	nsubj
2	step	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 spots	case
4	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spots	amod
5	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 step	obl
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 out	cc
7	out	out	ADV	_	5 spots	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	11 bus	case
9	behind	behind	ADP	_	11 bus	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bus	det
11	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 step	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	present	They			blind spots		from the bus	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into spot=Destination

Option 4

Bus seats have no belts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seats	compound
2	seats	seat	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 belts	det
5	belts	belt	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Bus seats	no belts					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent belt=Patient

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