Test 9 · ★ · Trains, the Underground and subways

Why do people take off their backpacks on a crowded train?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: take off · To what, where: backpacks, crowded train

This is test 9 · ★ 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	4 take	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 take	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	nsubj
4	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 take	compound:prt
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 backpacks	nmod:poss
7	backpacks	backpack	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 take	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	11 train	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 train	det
10	crowded	crowded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 train	amod
11	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 take	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	present · do-support	people	people's backpacks		a crowded train			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent backpack=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.

The options

Option 1

It makes the train lighter

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 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 train	det
4	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 makes	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the train				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material train=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

It gives others more space

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 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 gives	iobj
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 space	amod
5	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	It	more space	others				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent other=Recipient space=Theme

Option 3

Backpacks are not allowed on trains

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Backpacks	backpack	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur 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	on	on	ADP	_	6 trains	case
6	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Backpacks		trains			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary

Option 4

The train is too warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 train	det
2	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 warm	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 warm	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 warm	advmod
5	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the train					warm property	tree rules

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