Test 10 · ★★ · Railway crossings, maps and addresses

lights flashing at the level crossing but no train yet, quick dash?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: lights · What happens: flash · To what, where: level crossing

This is test 10 · ★★ 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	flashing	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 lights	acl
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 crossing	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 crossing	det
5	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crossing	compound
6	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flashing	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 train	cc
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 train	det
9	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crossing	conj
10	yet	yet	ADV	_	2 flashing	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 dash	punct
12	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 dash	amod
13	dash	dash	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 lights	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 lights	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flash	gerund	lights and quick dash not said here			the level crossing but no train	yet		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crossing=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

Yes, if you run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 run	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 run	nsubj
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 2

Go round the barrier before it closes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	round	round	ADP	_	4 barrier	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 barrier	det
4	barrier	barrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
5	before	before	ADP	_	7 closes	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 closes	nsubj
7	closes	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			the barrier			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round barrier=Initial_Location
2	close	present	barrier						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, stop and wait, a train is coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wait	cc
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 coming	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 train	det
8	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coming	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 coming	aux
10	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stop	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	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

Option 4

Duck under the barrier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 barrier	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 barrier	det
4	barrier	barrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Duck	nmod

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

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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