Exam question 2 · Crossing the road

It being given that a pedestrian in the United Kingdom is about to cross, identify the direction in which he ought first to look.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: pedestrian, he · What happens: give, be, cross, identify, look · To what, where: It, direction

This is exam question 2 of lesson 41 «Crossing the road» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 given	aux:pass
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 about	mark
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pedestrian	det
6	pedestrian	pedestrian	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 about	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 Kingdom	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Kingdom	det
9	United	United	PROPN	_	10 Kingdom	flat
10	Kingdom	Kingdom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pedestrian	nmod
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 about	cop
12	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 given	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cross	mark
14	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 about	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 identify	punct
16	identify	identify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 cross	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 direction	det
18	direction	direction	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 identify	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 look	obl
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 look	nsubj
22	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 look	aux
23	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 look	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 look	mark
25	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 direction	acl:relcl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 given	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	give	gerund · passive		It		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	is	present	a pedestrian in the United Kingdom		about property	tree rules
3	cross	to-infinitive	a pedestrian in the United Kingdom not said here			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	identify	infinitive	a pedestrian in the United Kingdom not said here	the direction		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent direction=Theme
5	look	ought	he	the direction not said here	in the direction; first property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in which=Theme

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

Behind, traffic approaching from the rear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Behind	behind	ADP	_	3 traffic	case
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 traffic	punct
3	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	approaching	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 traffic	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 rear	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 rear	det
7	rear	rear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approaching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	approach	gerund	traffic not said here			the rear			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from rear=Initial_Location

Option 2

Upward, towards the traffic lights only

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Upward	upward	ADV	_	6 lights	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Upward	punct
3	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 lights	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lights	det
5	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lights	compound
6	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	only	only	ADV	_	6 lights	advmod

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

Option 3

To the left, traffic proceeding upon the right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	3 left	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 left	det
3	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 proceeding	punct
5	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proceeding	compound
6	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 left	appos
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 right	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 right	det
9	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proceeding	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To the right, traffic proceeding upon the left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	ADP	_	6 proceeding	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 proceeding	det
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 proceeding	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 right	punct
5	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proceeding	compound
6	proceeding	proceeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 left	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 left	det
9	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proceeding	nmod

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

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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