Test 8 · ★ · Pavements, crossings, cars, trains, airports and bikes

Why do people have their bus fare ready before getting on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: people · What happens: have, get on · To what, where: bus fare

This is test 8 · ★ 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	4 have	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 fare	nmod:poss
6	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fare	compound
7	fare	fare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 have	xcomp
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 getting	mark
10	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ready	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 getting	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present · do-support	people	people's bus fare				ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fare=Patient
2	get on	gerund	people not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

It keeps the line moving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 line	det
4	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
5	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 keeps	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	It	the line					tree rules
2	move	gerund	the line not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Drivers will not let you on otherwise for an hour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 let	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 let	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 let	advmod
4	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 let	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	4 let	compound:prt
7	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	_	4 let	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 hour	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 hour	det
10	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 let	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let on	future	Drivers	you			hour		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

Option 3

It makes the bus go faster than the cars

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 makes	nsubj
2	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bus	det
4	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 makes	obj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 makes	xcomp
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 go	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 cars	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cars	det
9	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 faster	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	present	It	the bus					tree rules
2	go	infinitive	the bus not said here					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Buses only stop for people holding money

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Buses	bus	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 stop	advmod
3	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 people	case
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stop	obl
6	holding	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 people	acl
7	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 holding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Buses					for people	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	hold	gerund	people not said here	money					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme

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