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Test 4 · ★★ · Railway crossings, maps and addresses

A boy flying a kite near a railway line sees it caught on the overhead wires. What should he do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, kite · What happens: fly, see, catch, do · To what, where: kite, railway line, overhead wires

This is test 4 · ★★ 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 boy flying a kite near a railway line sees it caught on the overhead wires.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sees	nsubj
3	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 boy	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 kite	det
5	kite	kite	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flying	obj
6	near	near	ADP	_	9 line	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 line	det
8	railway	railway	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 line	compound
9	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flying	obl
10	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sees	obj
12	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 sees	xcomp
13	on	on	ADP	_	16 wires	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wires	det
15	overhead	overhead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 wires	amod
16	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 caught	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund	a boy not said here	a kite		a railway line			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent kite=Theme near line=Location
2	see	present	a boy	kite					tree rules
3	catch	participle	kite not said here			the overhead wires			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 he 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	boy						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Climb the pole to pull it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pole	det
3	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pull	mark
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Climb	advcl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pull	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 pull	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here	the pole					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location pole=Theme
2	pull off	to-infinitive	you not said here	pole					vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Let it go and tell an adult; never climb to get it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tell	cc
5	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 go	conj
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 adult	det
7	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tell	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 climb	punct
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 climb	advmod
10	climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 get	mark
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 climb	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	go	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient
4	not climb	infinitive	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	adult					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

Throw a stone at it to free it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Throw	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 free	mark
7	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Throw	advcl
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Throw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	imperative	you not said here	a stone		stone			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent stone=Destination it=Theme

Option 4

Pull the string hard until it comes free of the wires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 string	det
3	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pull	obj
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Pull	advmod
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 comes	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 comes	nsubj
7	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pull	advcl
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 comes	xcomp
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 wires	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wires	det
11	wires	wire	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 free	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	the string				hard property	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent string=Theme
2	come	present	string					free property	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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