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Test 4 · ★ · Trains, the Underground and subways

An escalator at a London station has a crowd standing on both sides. What will people in a hurry say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: escalator, crowd, people · What happens: have, stand, say · To what, where: crowd, sides · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: An escalator at a London station has a crowd standing on both sides.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 escalator	det
2	escalator	escalator	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	nsubj
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 station	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 station	det
5	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 station	compound
6	station	station	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 escalator	nmod
7	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crowd	det
9	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 has	obj
10	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 crowd	acl
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 sides	case
12	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	13 sides	det
13	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 standing	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 has	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a escalator at a London station	a crowd					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crowd=Patient
2	stand	gerund	a crowd not said here			both sides			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location

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: What will people in a hurry say?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 hurry	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hurry	det
6	hurry	hurry	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 people	nmod
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	future	people in a hurry						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

The options

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

Please stand on the right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Please	please	INTJ	_	2 stand	discourse
2	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 right	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 right	det
5	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stand	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here			the right			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on right=Location

Option 2

Please walk on the right-hand side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Please	please	INTJ	_	2 walk	discourse
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	8 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 side	det
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 right	punct
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 side	compound
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here			the hand side			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory

Option 3

Please sit down on the steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Please	please	INTJ	_	2 sit	discourse
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sit	compound:prt
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 steps	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 steps	det
6	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here					on the steps	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location

Option 4

Please run faster up the left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Please	please	INTJ	_	2 run	discourse
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 run	advmod
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 run	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 left	det
6	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run up	imperative	you not said here	the left				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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