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Test 1 · Crossing the road

A family from Florida is on holiday in Sydney. What must the children change when they cross roads there?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: family, children · What happens: be, change, cross · To what, where: holiday, roads

This is test 1 of lesson 41 «Crossing the road» 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 family from Florida is on holiday in Sydney.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 holiday	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 Florida	case
4	Florida	Florida	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 family	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 holiday	cop
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 holiday	case
7	holiday	holiday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Sydney	case
9	Sydney	Sydney	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 holiday	nmod
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 holiday	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a family from Florida			holiday		in Sydney	tree rules

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 must the children change when they cross roads there?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 change	obj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 change	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 change	nsubj
5	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 cross	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cross	nsubj
8	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 change	advcl
9	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cross	obj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 cross	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 change	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	change	must	the children						vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	cross	present	children = child	roads		there			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient

The options

Option 1

Look only straight ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	only	only	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod
3	straight	straight	ADV	_	4 ahead	advmod
4	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					ahead property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nothing, the rule is the same everywhere

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	7 same	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rule	det
4	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 same	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 same	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 same	det
7	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	7 same	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Nothing					everywhere, same property	tree rules

Option 3

Look left first as at home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	left	left	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Look	xcomp
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 home	case
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 home	case
6	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					as home; first, left property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Look right first instead of left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Look	advmod
4	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	6 left	mark
5	of	of	ADP	_	4 instead	fixed
6	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Look	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here					first, right property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	leave	participle	you not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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