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Test 8 · ★★ · Railway crossings, maps and addresses

The barrier is down at a crossing and a woman says, "The train always takes ages, let's go under." What is right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: barrier, woman, train, 's · What happens: be, say, take, let, go under · To what, where: crossing, ages, 's · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★★ 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: The barrier is down at a crossing and a woman says, "The train always takes ages, let's go under."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 barrier	det
2	barrier	barrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crossing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crossing	cop
4	down	down	ADV	_	7 crossing	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 crossing	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 crossing	det
7	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 says	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woman	det
10	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 says	nsubj
11	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 crossing	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 takes	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 takes	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 train	det
15	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 takes	nsubj
16	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	17 takes	advmod
17	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 says	ccomp
18	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 takes	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	17 takes	parataxis
21	's	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 let	obj
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 let	xcomp
23	under	under	ADP	_	22 go	compound:prt
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 crossing	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 crossing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the barrier			a crossing		down property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	a woman						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take in a quote	present	the train	ages				always property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Theme
4	let in a quote	infinitive		's					tree rules
5	go under in a quote	infinitive	's not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 is right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						right property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Go around instead of under

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	instead	instead	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
4	of	of	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed
5	under	under	ADP	_	3 instead	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go around	imperative	you not said here					around, instead property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Go under only if you are small enough not to touch the barrier

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	7 small	mark
3	only	only	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 small	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 small	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Go	advcl
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 touch	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 touch	mark
11	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 small	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 barrier	det
13	barrier	barrier	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 touch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you					enough, small property	tree rules
3	not touch	to-infinitive		the barrier					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme barrier=Co-Theme

Option 3

Go under quickly while she watches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	3 quickly	case
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Go	obl
4	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 watches	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watches	nsubj
6	watches	watch	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						vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under quickly=Location
2	watch	present	she						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Wait, because a train may come very fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 come	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 come	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 train	det
5	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 come	nsubj
6	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 come	aux
7	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come	may	a train					fast 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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