Test 3 · ★ · Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes

A girl reads comics in the back seat and starts to feel ill. What is the best advice?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: girl, best advice · What happens: read, start, feel, be · To what, where: comics, back seat

This is test 3 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A girl reads comics in the back seat and starts to feel ill.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reads	nsubj
3	reads	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	comics	comic	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reads	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 seat	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 seat	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seat	compound
8	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reads	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 starts	cc
10	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reads	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 feel	mark
12	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 starts	xcomp
13	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 feel	xcomp
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reads	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	read	present	a girl	comics	the back seat		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comic=Topic
2	start	present	a girl not said here				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	feel	to-infinitive	a girl not said here			ill property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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: What is the best advice?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 advice	det
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 advice	amod
5	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the best advice						tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Put the comic down, look at the horizon ahead and tell the driver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 comic	det
3	comic	comic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Put	obj
4	down	down	ADP	_	1 Put	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 horizon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horizon	det
9	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
10	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	6 look	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 tell	cc
12	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Put	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 driver	det
14	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tell	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	put down	imperative	you not said here	the comic			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent comic=Goal
2	look	infinitive	you not said here			at the horizon; ahead property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at horizon=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		the driver		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient

Option 2

Read faster so the trip feels shorter and finish the comic before it gets worse

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Read	read	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Read	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 feels	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 trip	det
5	trip	trip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feels	nsubj
6	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Read	advcl
7	shorter	short	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 feels	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 finish	cc
9	finish	finish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Read	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 comic	det
11	comic	comic	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 finish	obj
12	before	before	SCONJ	_	14 gets	mark
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gets	nsubj
14	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 finish	advcl
15	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 gets	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	imperative	you not said here		fast property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	feel	present	the trip		short property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	finish	infinitive	you not said here	the comic		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality comic=Eventuality
4	get	present	trip		bad property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Close the windows to keep the car warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Close	close	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 windows	det
3	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Close	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 keep	mark
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Close	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	obj
8	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keep	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	close	imperative	you not said here	the windows					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent window=Patient
2	keep	to-infinitive	you not said here	the car				warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme

Option 4

Switch from the comic to a tablet game

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Switch	switch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 comic	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 comic	det
4	comic	comic	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Switch	nmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 game	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 game	det
7	tablet	tablet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 game	compound
8	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Switch	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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