Test 17 · ★★ · Railway crossings, maps and addresses

did u hear some teens ducked under the crossing barriers and "the train missed them by a hair". lesson?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: u, train · What happens: hear, duck, miss · To what, where: teens, crossing barriers

This is test 17 · ★★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hear	aux
2	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 hear	nsubj
3	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 teens	det
5	teens	teen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hear	obj
6	ducked	duck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 teens	acl
7	under	under	ADP	_	10 barriers	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 barriers	det
9	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 barriers	compound
10	barriers	barrier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 ducked	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 missed	cc
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 missed	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 train	det
14	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 missed	nsubj
15	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ducked	conj
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 missed	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 hair	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hair	det
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 missed	obl
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 missed	punct
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct
22	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hear	obl:unmarked
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hear	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past · do-support	u	some teens		lesson obl:unmarked	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer teen=Stimulus
2	duck	participle		some teens not said here	the crossing barriers		vn avoid-52 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	miss in a quote	past	the train	teens = teen		by a hair	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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

You can cross if you run quickly and keep looking at the train

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cross	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	aux
3	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 run	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 run	nsubj
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	advcl
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 run	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 keep	cc
9	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 cross	conj
10	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 keep	xcomp
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 train	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 train	det
13	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cross	can	You		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run a condition, not said to happen	present	you	quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	keep	infinitive	You not said here		tree rules
4	look	gerund	You not said here	at the train	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at train=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Duck under fast if the train looks far

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	_	3 fast	case
3	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Duck	amod
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 looks	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 train	det
6	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looks	nsubj
7	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fast	advcl
8	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 looks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the train					far property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Barriers are only meant for cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Barriers	barrier	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meant	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 meant	aux:pass
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 meant	advmod
4	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 cars	case
6	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 meant	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present · passive		Barriers				for cars	vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme for car=Attribute

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Never go round or under lowered barriers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 go	advmod
2	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	round	round	ADV	_	2 go	advmod
4	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 under	cc
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 barriers	case
6	lowered	lower	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 barriers	amod
7	barriers	barrier	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 round	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	imperative	you not said here					round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lower	participle							vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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