Test 6 · ★ · Helpers in town and building sites

Why should you stay away from big machines on a building site?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: stay away · To what, where: big machines

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 274 «Helpers in town and building sites» 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 stay	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stay	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 stay	nsubj
4	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 stay	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 machines	case
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 machines	amod
8	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stay	obl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 site	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 site	det
11	building	building	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 site	compound
12	site	site	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stay	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay away	should	you			big machines		on a building site; away property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on site=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The machines are too noisy for your ears to bear for long

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 machines	det
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 noisy	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 noisy	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 noisy	advmod
5	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 ears	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ears	nmod:poss
8	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 noisy	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 bear	mark
10	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 noisy	advcl
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 long	case
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 bear	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the machines					for your ears; noisy property	tree rules
2	bear	to-infinitive	the machines not said here					long property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

The machines are very slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 machines	det
2	machines	machine	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slow	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 slow	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 slow	advmod
5	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The drivers often cannot see children nearby

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 drivers	det
2	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	nsubj
3	often	often	ADV	_	6 see	advmod
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 see	obj
8	nearby	nearby	ADV	_	6 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	can	the drivers	children				nearby, often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus

Option 4

Workers like to be alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Workers	worker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 like	nsubj
2	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 alone	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 alone	cop
5	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 like	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	present	Workers						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is	to-infinitive	Workers not said here					alone property	tree rules

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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