Test 11 · ★★ · Railway crossings, maps and addresses

wanna put a coin on the track so it gets squashed

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: wanna · What happens: put, squash · To what, where: coin, track

This is test 11 · ★★ 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	wanna	wanna	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coin	det
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 track	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 track	det
7	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 squashed	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 squashed	nsubj:pass
10	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 squashed	aux:pass
11	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 put	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	wanna	a coin		the track			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent coin=Theme on track=Destination
2	squash	present · passive		coin					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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, it's a fun trick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 trick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 trick	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trick	det
6	fun	fun	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trick	amod
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Yes, if you stand back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand back	present	you						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

No, it's dangerous and can derail a train

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 dangerous	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dangerous	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 derail	cc
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 derail	aux
8	derail	derail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dangerous	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 train	det
10	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 derail	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					dangerous property	tree rules
2	derail	can		a train					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent train=Patient

Option 4

Only a small coin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	4 coin	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coin	det
3	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 coin	amod
4	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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