Test 2 · ★ · Trains, the Underground and subways

Why is a train harder to dodge than a car?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, dodge

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 harder	advmod
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 harder	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 train	det
4	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 harder	obl:unmarked
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dodge	mark
7	dodge	dodge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 harder	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 car	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 car	det
10	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dodge	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 harder	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						a train obl:unmarked; hard property	tree rules
2	dodge	to-infinitive						than a car	vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It is fast, heavy and cannot stop or turn 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	3 fast	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fast	cop
3	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 heavy	punct
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fast	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 stop	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 stop	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 stop	advmod
9	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fast	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 turn	cc
11	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 stop	conj
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	11 turn	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	fast property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	not stop	can			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	turn	infinitive		quickly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It always rings a bell before it comes

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	3 rings	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 rings	advmod
3	rings	ring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bell	det
5	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rings	obj
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 comes	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rings	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ring	present	It	a bell				always property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
2	come	present	bell						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

It moves slower than a car

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 moves	nsubj
2	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 moves	xcomp
4	than	than	ADP	_	6 car	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 car	det
6	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 slower	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	It					slow property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It can steer away from people

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	3 steer	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 steer	aux
3	steer	steer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 steer	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 steer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steer away	can	It					from people; away property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent from people=Destination

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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