Test 5 · ★ · Crash forces, school buses and public buses
A child is being called names on the school bus every day. Who can help?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: call, help · To what, where: child · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 child is being called names on the school bus every day.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 child | det |
| 2 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bus | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bus | det |
| 9 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bus | compound |
| 10 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 names | nmod |
| 11 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 called | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | a child | day | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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: Who can help?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 help | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | aux |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | can | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
The driver, a teacher or a parent
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 | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 teacher | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 teacher | det |
| 5 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 driver | conj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 parent | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 parent | det |
| 8 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 driver | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The bus company website
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 website | det |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 company | compound |
| 3 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 website | compound |
| 4 | website | website | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Only the other children
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 4 children | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 children | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 children | amod |
| 4 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Nobody, because it happens on the bus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happens | punct |
| 3 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 5 happens | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happens | nsubj |
| 5 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bus | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bus | det |
| 8 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happens | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Nobody | the bus | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on bus=Location |
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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