Test 10 · ★ · Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes

Why do double yellow lines run along some UK roads?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: double yellow lines · What happens: do, run · To what, where: UK roads

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 310 «Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 do	advmod
2	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 run	advcl
3	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lines	amod
4	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lines	amod
5	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 run	nsubj
6	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	along	along	ADP	_	10 roads	case
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 roads	det
9	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 roads	compound
10	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 run	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 run	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	present	double yellow lines not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	run	present	double yellow lines			some UK roads			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory

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 · ✓ the right answer

They show drivers they may not park there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	iobj
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 park	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 park	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 park	advmod
7	park	park	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 show	ccomp
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 park	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	They		drivers				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not park	may	drivers = driver			there			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

They show where children may cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 cross	advmod
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cross	nsubj
5	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	aux
6	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	They						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	cross	may	children						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They show where buses must stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 stop	advmod
4	buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stop	aux
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 show	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	They						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	must	buses						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

They mark the middle of a cycle lane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 mark	nsubj
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 middle	det
4	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mark	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 lane	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 lane	det
7	cycle	cycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lane	compound
8	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 middle	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	present	They	the middle of a cycle lane					vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent middle=Destination

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