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Test 8 · ★ · Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues…

A man walks past twelve people and starts paying at the front of the queue. Why are people upset?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: man, people · What happens: walk, start, pay, be · To what, where: front

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 331 «Walking, seat belts, buses, airports, bike helmets, queues and tipping» 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 man walks past twelve people and starts paying at the front of the queue.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 walks	nsubj
3	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 people	case
5	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 people	nummod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walks	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 starts	cc
8	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 walks	conj
9	paying	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 starts	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 front	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 front	det
12	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paying	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 queue	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 queue	det
15	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 front	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	a man					past twelve people	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past people=Trajectory
2	start	present	a man not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	pay	gerund	a man not said here			the front of the queue			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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: Why are people upset?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 upset	advmod
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 upset	cop
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 upset	nsubj
4	upset	upset	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 upset	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	people					upset property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

He was not carrying a basket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 carrying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carrying	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 carrying	advmod
4	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 basket	det
6	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not carry	past · progressive	He	a basket					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Theme

Option 2

The queue was going too fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 queue	det
2	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 going	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 fast	advmod
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 going	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the queue					fast property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

He was paying with cash instead of a card, which takes much longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 paying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paying	aux
3	paying	pay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 cash	case
5	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paying	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	9 card	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 instead	fixed
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 card	det
9	card	card	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 takes	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 takes	nsubj
12	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 card	acl:relcl
13	much	much	ADV	_	14 longer	advmod
14	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 takes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · progressive	He					with cash; instead a card	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	take	present	a card					long property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Pushing in is unfair and rude to everyone who waited

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 unfair	csubj
2	in	in	ADV	_	1 Pushing	advmod
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 unfair	cop
4	unfair	unfair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 rude	cc
6	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 unfair	conj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 everyone	case
8	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 unfair	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 waited	nsubj
10	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 everyone	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push in	gerund							vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	Pushing					to everyone; unfair property	tree rules
3	be		Pushing not said here						tree rules
4	wait	past							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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