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Test 3 · ★ · Breakfast, the school day and honest homework

A boy in Texas runs round a corner in the corridor and crashes into a younger child carrying a tray. Which rule would have prevented this?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, younger child · What happens: run, crash, carry, prevent · To what, where: corridor, tray, rule

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 306 «Breakfast, the school day and honest homework» 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 in Texas runs round a corner in the corridor and crashes into a younger child carrying a tray.

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	5 runs	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	round	round	ADP	_	8 corner	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 corner	det
8	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 runs	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 corridor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 corridor	det
11	corridor	corridor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 runs	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 crashes	cc
13	crashes	crash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 runs	conj
14	into	into	ADP	_	17 child	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 child	det
16	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 child	amod
17	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crashes	obl
18	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 child	acl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 tray	det
20	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 carrying	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 runs	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	present	a boy in Texas			the corridor		round a corner	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round corner=Trajectory
2	crash	present	a boy in Texas not said here					into a younger child result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into child=Result
3	carry	gerund	a younger child not said here	a tray					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tray=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: Which rule would have prevented this?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 rule	det
2	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prevented	nsubj:pass
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 prevented	aux
4	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 prevented	aux
5	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 prevented	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 prevented	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prevent	would · perfect · passive		which rule					tree rules

The options

Option 1

Keep your voice low at lunchtime

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 voice	nmod:poss
3	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Keep	obj
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keep	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 lunchtime	case
6	lunchtime	lunchtime	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 low	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	imperative	you not said here	your voice				low property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme

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

Walk, do not run, in corridors

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 run	advmod
5	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 corridors	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 corridors	case
8	corridors	corridor	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Walk	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here			corridors			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corridor=Trajectory
2	not run	infinitive · do-support	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Always carry a tray with both hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 carry	advmod
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tray	det
4	tray	tray	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hands	case
6	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hands	det
7	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	imperative	you not said here	a tray				with both hands; always property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tray=Theme

Option 4

Always leave the classroom last of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 leave	advmod
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 classroom	det
4	classroom	classroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leave	obj
5	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leave	xcomp
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 last	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the classroom				always property	tree rules
2	last	infinitive	the classroom not said here					of all	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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