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Test 12 · ★ · When the police come

«police cars only stop when someone's getting arrested». True?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: police cars · What happens: stop, arrest · To what, where: someone

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 384 «When the police come» 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: «police cars only stop when someone's getting arrested».

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct
2	police	police	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cars	compound
3	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 arrested	advmod
7	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 arrested	nsubj:pass
8	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 arrested	aux
9	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 arrested	aux:pass
10	arrested	arrest	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 stop	conj
11	»	»	PUNCT	_	10 arrested	punct
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop in a quote	present	police cars						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	arrest in a quote	present · progressive · passive		someone					vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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: True?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 True	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Only for adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 adults	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 adults	case
3	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

Only at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	3 night	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, they also stop to check people are safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stop	nsubj
4	also	also	ADV	_	5 stop	advmod
5	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 safe	parataxis
6	to	to	PART	_	7 check	mark
7	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stop	xcomp
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 check	obj
9	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 safe	cop
10	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	they						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	check	to-infinitive	they not said here	people					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
3	is	present						safe property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, always, that's the only thing they're there for

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	9 thing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 thing	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 always	punct
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 thing	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 thing	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 there	nsubj
11	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 there	cop
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 thing	acl:relcl
13	for	for	ADP	_	12 there	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that	the only thing				always property	tree rules
2	is	present	they	the only thing not said here				there property	tree rules

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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