Test 2 · ★ · Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes

Which is true about crosswalks in the USA?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	5 crosswalks	case
5	crosswalks	crosswalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 true	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 USA	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 USA	det
8	USA	USA	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 crosswalks	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						about crosswalks in the USA; true property	tree rules

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

Crosswalks are only for cars, not people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crosswalks	crosswalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cars	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cars	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 cars	advmod
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 cars	case
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 people	punct
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 people	advmod
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cars	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Crosswalks					for cars and people	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Drivers always stop at every crosswalk, so you never need to look first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 stop	advmod
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 crosswalk	case
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 crosswalk	det
6	crosswalk	crosswalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stop	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 need	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	11 need	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 need	nsubj
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 need	advmod
11	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 look	mark
13	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 need	xcomp
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Drivers	every crosswalk	always property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at crosswalk=Location
2	not need	present	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here		first property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Drivers should stop, but some do not, so you check before crossing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	aux
3	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 do	cc
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 do	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 check	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 check	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 check	nsubj
12	check	check	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stop	conj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 crossing	mark
14	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 check	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	stop	should	Drivers	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	not do	present	some	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	check	present	you	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	cross	gerund	you not said here	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

You should cross diagonally across the junction

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 cross	nsubj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 cross	aux
3	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	diagonally	diagonally	ADV	_	3 cross	advmod
5	across	across	ADP	_	7 junction	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 junction	det
7	junction	junction	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cross	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	should	You			the junction		diagonally property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across junction=Initial_Location

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