Test 3 · ★ · Crash forces, school buses and public buses

Why do people have their fare ready before getting on?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: have, get on · To what, where: fare

This is test 3 · ★ 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	4 have	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fare	nmod:poss
6	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	xcomp
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 getting	mark
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 ready	advcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 getting	compound:prt
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	people	people's fare				ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fare=Patient
2	get on	gerund	people not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

It makes the bus go faster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bus	det
4	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the bus					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the bus not said here					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Drivers do not accept money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 accept	nsubj
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 accept	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 accept	advmod
4	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 accept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not accept	present · do-support	Drivers	money					vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

Option 3

The ticket is cheaper that way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ticket	det
2	ticket	ticket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheaper	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 cheaper	cop
4	cheaper	cheap	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cheaper	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the ticket					that way obl:unmarked; cheap property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It keeps the line moving quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 line	det
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 moving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the line					tree rules
2	move	gerund	the line not said here					quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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