Test 16 · ★ · Shops, restaurants and libraries

escalator going down, my cousin wants to run up it for fun

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: escalator, cousin · What happens: go down, want, run up · To what, where: cousin

This is test 16 · ★ of lesson 273 «Shops, restaurants and libraries» 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	escalator	escalator	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 going	nsubj
2	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	down	down	ADV	_	2 going	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wants	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cousin	nmod:poss
6	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wants	nsubj
7	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 going	advcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 run	mark
9	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 wants	xcomp
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 run	compound:prt
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 run	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 fun	case
13	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go down	gerund	escalator		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	want	present	my cousin			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	run up not said to happen	to-infinitive	my cousin not said here	cousin	for fun	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Product for fun=Beneficiary

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

Yes, if nobody is on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 on	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 on	mark
4	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 on	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 on	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 it	case
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Yes, it's good exercise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 exercise	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 exercise	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 exercise	cop
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 exercise	amod
6	exercise	exercise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	good exercise					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, he could fall and get hurt or trap fingers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 fall	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fall	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 fall	aux
5	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hurt	cc
7	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 hurt	aux:pass
8	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fall	conj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 fingers	cc
10	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fingers	compound
11	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hurt	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	could	he						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hurt	infinitive · passive	he not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if he holds the rail tight with both hands on the way up

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 holds	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 holds	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 holds	nsubj
5	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rail	det
7	rail	rail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holds	obj
8	tight	tight	ADV	_	5 holds	advmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 hands	case
10	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	11 hands	det
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 holds	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 way	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 way	det
14	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holds	obl
15	up	up	ADV	_	14 way	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	present	he	the rail		the way		with both hands; tight property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent rail=Theme on way=Location

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