Test 9 · ★ · Crash forces, school buses and public buses
Someone opens a strong-smelling lunch on a crowded bus. Why is that unkind?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Someone, that · What happens: open, smell, be · To what, where: smelling lunch, crowded bus
This is test 9 · ★ 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: Someone opens a strong-smelling lunch on a crowded bus.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 opens | nsubj |
| 2 | opens | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lunch | det |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 smelling | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
| 6 | smelling | smell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lunch | amod |
| 7 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opens | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 bus | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bus | det |
| 10 | crowded | crowded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bus | amod |
| 11 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opens | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | present | Someone | a smelling lunch | a crowded bus | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme on bus=Location | |||
| 2 | smell | gerund | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=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: Why is that unkind?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 unkind | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unkind | cop |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 unkind | nsubj |
| 4 | unkind | unkind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 unkind | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | unkind property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Food is not allowed in any vehicle anywhere
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 allowed | aux:pass |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 allowed | advmod |
| 4 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 vehicle | case |
| 6 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 vehicle | det |
| 7 | vehicle | vehicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 allowed | obl |
| 8 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 allowed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not allow | present · passive | Food | any vehicle | anywhere property | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Everyone shares the small space and the smell
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 shares | nsubj |
| 2 | shares | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 space | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 space | amod |
| 5 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shares | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 smell | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 smell | det |
| 8 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 space | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Everyone | the small space and the smell | tree rules |
Option 3
The driver must eat first, before any of the passengers are allowed to eat
The tree, 14 words
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 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 eat | aux |
| 4 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 eat | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 allowed | punct |
| 7 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 allowed | mark |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 passengers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 passengers | det |
| 11 | passengers | passenger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 any | nmod |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 allowed | aux:pass |
| 13 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 eat | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 eat | mark |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 allowed | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | must | the driver | first property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | allow | present · passive | any | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | any not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Buses have their own lunch time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 time | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 5 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | compound |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Buses | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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