Test 5 · ★★ · Bikes, scooters and car parks

Why might walkers on a shared path not notice a bike coming?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: walkers, bike · What happens: share, not notice, come · To what, where: bike

This is test 5 · ★★ of lesson 272 «Bikes, scooters and car parks» 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	9 notice	advmod
2	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 notice	aux
3	walkers	walker	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 notice	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 path	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 path	det
6	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 path	amod
7	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walkers	nmod
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 notice	advmod
9	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 bike	det
11	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 notice	obj
12	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 notice	xcomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 notice	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	share	participle			tree rules
2	not notice	might	walkers on a shared path	a bike	tree rules
3	come	gerund	a bike not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Walkers can feel bikes coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walkers	walker	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	aux
3	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feel	obj
5	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	can	Walkers	bikes					tree rules
2	come	gerund	bikes not said here						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Bikes are too big to miss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 big	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 miss	mark
6	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 big	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bikes					big property	tree rules
2	miss	to-infinitive	Bikes not said here						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

They always look behind them every few steps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 look	advmod
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 look	obl
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 steps	det
7	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 steps	amod
8	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	They	every few steps				behind them = they; always property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Bikes are quiet and they may not hear it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bikes	bike	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 quiet	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 quiet	cop
3	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hear	cc
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 hear	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 hear	advmod
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 quiet	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Bikes					quiet property	tree rules
2	not hear	may	Bikes = bike	it					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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