Test 14 · ★ · Money in town and staying safe in crowds

crowd pushing like mad at the gate, cant breathe much

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: crowd · What happens: push, breathe

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 276 «Money in town and staying safe in crowds» 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	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 breathe	nsubj
2	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 crowd	acl
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 mad	case
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pushing	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 gate	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 gate	det
7	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pushing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cant	punct
9	cant	cant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gate	conj
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	much	much	ADV	_	10 breathe	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	gerund	crowd not said here					like mad; at the gate and cant	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at gate=Theme
2	breathe	present	crowd						vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: 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.

The options

Option 1

Push back as hard as you can

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Push	advmod
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 hard	advmod
4	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Push	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	7 can	mark
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 can	nsubj
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hard	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push back	imperative	you not said here					hard property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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

Move sideways to the edge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	sideways	sideways	ADV	_	1 Move	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 edge	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 edge	det
5	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Move	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	imperative	you not said here			the edge		sideways property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to edge=Trajectory

Option 3

Sit down where you are

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 Sit	compound:prt
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	1 Sit	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 where	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 where	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	imperative	you not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	you					where property	tree rules

Option 4

Climb over people to the front

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Climb	climb	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	over	over	ADP	_	3 people	case
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Climb	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 front	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 front	det
6	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Climb	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	imperative	you not said here			the front		over people	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme over people=Initial_Location to front=Destination

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