Test 10 · Crossing the road

just run across, no cars rn

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: run · To what, where: cars rn

This is test 10 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 run	advmod
2	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADV	_	2 run	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 rn	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cars	det
6	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 rn	compound
7	rn	rn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here	cars rn				across property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Run while the cars are slowing down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 slowing	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cars	det
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 slowing	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 slowing	aux
6	slowing	slow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Run	advcl
7	down	down	ADP	_	6 slowing	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	slow down	present · progressive	the cars						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

Yes, run diagonally across it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 run	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	diagonally	diagonally	ADV	_	3 run	advmod
5	across	across	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			it		diagonally property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across it=Trajectory

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Walk straight across, don't run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	straight	straight	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	across	across	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 run	punct
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 run	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 run	advmod
7	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Walk	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here					across, straight property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not run	infinitive · do-support	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Run with your eyes on your phone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 eyes	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 eyes	nmod:poss
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Run	obl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 phone	case
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 phone	nmod:poss
7	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			your phone		with your eyes	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on phone=Trajectory

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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