Test 7 · ★★ · Bikes, scooters and car parks

Why are skateboards not good on busy streets?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: skateboards · What happens: not be · To what, where: busy streets

This is test 7 · ★★ 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	5 good	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 good	cop
3	skateboards	skateboard	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 good	nsubj
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 good	advmod
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 streets	case
7	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 streets	amod
8	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 good	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 good	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	present	skateboards			busy streets		good property	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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They are hard to stop quickly

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 hard	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hard	cop
3	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 hard	xcomp
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					hard property	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	They not said here					quickly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

They are not allowed anywhere

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	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	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	4 allowed	advmod

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

Option 3

They are too heavy to carry

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	4 heavy	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heavy	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 heavy	advmod
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 carry	mark
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 heavy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	They					heavy property	tree rules
2	carry	to-infinitive	They not said here						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They always break on concrete

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 break	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 break	advmod
3	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 concrete	case
5	concrete	concrete	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 break	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	present	They			concrete		always property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on concrete=Location

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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