Test 2 · ★ · Crash forces, school buses and public buses
A girl in Auckland reaches her stop but nobody presses the button. What is likely?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, nobody · What happens: reach, press, stop, be · To what, where: stop, button
This is test 2 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: A girl in Auckland reaches her stop but nobody presses the button.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reaches | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Auckland | case |
| 4 | Auckland | Auckland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 girl | nmod |
| 5 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 stop | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reaches | obj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 presses | cc |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 presses | nsubj |
| 10 | presses | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 reaches | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 button | det |
| 12 | button | button | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 presses | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reaches | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | present | a girl in Auckland | girl's stop | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stop=Theme | ||||
| 2 | press | present | nobody | the button | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent button=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | girl | nom stop «event transitive»: poss=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.
Sentence 2: What is likely?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 likely | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 likely | cop |
| 3 | likely | likely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 likely | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | likely property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The bus will drive on past her stop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bus | det |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drive | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 drive | aux |
| 4 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 stop | case |
| 6 | past | past | ADP | _ | 8 stop | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 stop | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drive | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | future | the bus | her stop | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | her = she | nom stop «event transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
The bus will stop at every stop on the way
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bus | det |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 stop | case |
| 6 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 stop | det |
| 7 | stop | stop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 way | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | future | the bus | every stop | on the way | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at stop=Location |
Option 3
The bus will turn back round for her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bus | det |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 turn | aux |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 turn | advmod |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 4 turn | advmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 turn | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn back | future | the bus | for her = she; round property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
The driver will stop anyway because he knows she lives there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 driver | det |
| 2 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stop | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | aux |
| 4 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 4 stop | advmod |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 8 knows | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 knows | nsubj |
| 8 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stop | advcl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lives | nsubj |
| 10 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 knows | ccomp |
| 11 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 lives | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | future | the driver | anyway property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | know | present | driver | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | live | present | she | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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