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Test 1 · ★★ · Railway crossings, maps and addresses

A girl in Kansas sees the crossing lights flashing but no barriers. What should she do?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, crossing lights · What happens: see, flash, do · To what, where: crossing lights

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 275 «Railway crossings, maps and addresses» 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

Sentence 1: A girl in Kansas sees the crossing lights flashing but no barriers.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Kansas	case
4	Kansas	Kansas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 girl	nmod
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lights	det
7	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lights	compound
8	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sees	obj
9	flashing	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 lights	acl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 barriers	cc
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 barriers	det
12	barriers	barrier	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 lights	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a girl in Kansas	the crossing lights but no barriers					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus
2	flash	gerund	the crossing lights but no barriers not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «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.

Sentence 2: What should she do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	girl						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Cross, because there are no barriers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 barriers	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 are	mark
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 are	expl
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 barriers	cop
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 barriers	det
7	barriers	barrier	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cross	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		no barriers					tree rules

Option 2

Look for the train and then decide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 train	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 train	det
4	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 decide	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 decide	advmod
7	decide	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					for the train	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for train=Theme
2	decide	present	you not said here				then		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Cross if she runs very fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 runs	mark
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 runs	nsubj
4	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Cross	appos
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 runs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	she					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stop and wait, because a train is coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wait	cc
3	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 coming	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 coming	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 train	det
7	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 coming	aux
9	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stop	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	present · progressive	a train						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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