Test 18 · ★ · Trains, the Underground and subways

my brother reckons a driver saw a kid on the line and stopped "like 2 inches away". what's prob exaggerated

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: brother, driver · What happens: reckon, see, stop, be, exaggerate · To what, where: kid, line, prob

This is test 18 · ★ of lesson 270 «Trains, the Underground and subways» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 driver	det
5	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kid	det
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obj
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 line	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 line	det
11	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stopped	cc
13	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 away	punct
15	like	like	INTJ	_	18 away	discourse
16	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 inches	nummod
17	inches	inch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 away	obl:unmarked
18	away	away	ADV	_	13 stopped	advmod
19	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 away	punct
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 prob	advmod
22	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 prob	cop
23	prob	prob	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	obl
24	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 prob	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	my brother				vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	past	a driver	a kid	the line		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kid=Stimulus
3	stop	past	a driver not said here			away property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	is a	present		prob			tree rules
5	exaggerate	participle		prob not said here			tree rules

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

That trains run on rails at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 trains	det
2	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	nsubj
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 rails	case
5	rails	rail	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 run	obl
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	that trains			rails		at all	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rail=Trajectory

Option 2

That drivers look out at the track

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 drivers	det
2	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 look	compound:prt
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 track	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 track	det
7	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look out	present	that drivers			the track			vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The close stop, since trains need hundreds of metres to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stop	det
2	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stop	amod
3	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 need	punct
5	since	since	SCONJ	_	7 need	mark
6	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	nsubj
7	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	acl:relcl
8	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 need	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 metres	case
10	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hundreds	nmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 stop	mark
12	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 need	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	trains	hundreds of metres					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hundred=Theme
2	stop	to-infinitive	trains not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

That there was a train on the line

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 train	nsubj
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 was	expl
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 train	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 train	det
5	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 line	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 line	det
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 train	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	That	a train		the line			tree rules

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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