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Test 3 · ★★ · Railway crossings, maps and addresses

Two boys put stones on the railway line. What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two boys · What happens: put, happen · To what, where: stones, railway line

This is test 3 · ★★ 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: Two boys put stones on the railway line.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 boys	nummod
2	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 put	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	8 line	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 line	det
7	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 line	compound
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	Two boys	stones		the railway line			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme on line=Destination

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 could happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

The stones would just be crushed into sand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stones	det
2	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crushed	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 crushed	aux
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 crushed	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 crushed	aux:pass
6	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 sand	case
8	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crushed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	would · passive		the stones				into sand result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient into sand=Result

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The train could come off the track and people be hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 train	det
2	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 come	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 track	det
7	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 people	cc
9	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 track	conj
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 hurt	aux:pass
11	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 come	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come off	could	the train	the track and people					tree rules
2	hurt	infinitive · passive	the train not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 3

The train would stop and wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 train	det
2	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stop	aux
4	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wait	cc
6	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stop	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	would	the train						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	wait	infinitive	the train not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nothing, because trains are far too heavy to be moved by a few stones

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 heavy	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 heavy	mark
4	trains	train	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 heavy	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 heavy	cop
6	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 heavy	advmod
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 heavy	advmod
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod
9	to	to	PART	_	11 moved	mark
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 moved	aux:pass
11	moved	move	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 heavy	advcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 stones	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stones	det
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stones	amod
15	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 moved	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	trains					far, heavy property	tree rules
2	move	to-infinitive · passive	a few stones						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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