Exam question 4 · Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes
State the meaning in the United Kingdom of double yellow lines along the road.
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: state · To what, where: meaning, United Kingdom
This is exam question 4 of lesson 310 «Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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 | State | state | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meaning | det |
| 3 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Kingdom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Kingdom | det |
| 6 | United | United | PROPN | _ | 7 Kingdom | flat |
| 7 | Kingdom | Kingdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 State | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 lines | case |
| 9 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lines | amod |
| 10 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lines | amod |
| 11 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Kingdom | nmod |
| 12 | along | along | ADP | _ | 14 road | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 road | det |
| 14 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lines | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 State | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | state speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the meaning | the United Kingdom of double yellow lines along the road | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic |
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 · ← Mova's choice
Parking permitted at weekends
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parking | parking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Parking | acl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 weekends | case |
| 4 | weekends | weekend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 permitted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | permit | participle | Parking not said here | weekend | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No parking at any time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 parking | det |
| 2 | parking | parking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 parking | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A lane reserved for bicycles
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lane | det |
| 2 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | reserved | reserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 lane | acl |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 bicycles | case |
| 5 | bicycles | bicycle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reserved | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reserve | participle | a lane not said here | for bicycles | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bicycle=Beneficiary |
Option 4
Parking for buses only
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parking | parking | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 buses | case |
| 3 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Parking | nmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 3 buses | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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