Test 11 · Crossing the road
cross at the bend, it's quicker
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, bend · What happens: cross, be · To what, where: bend
This is test 11 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 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 bend | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bend | det |
| 4 | bend | bend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 cross | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 quicker | punct |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 quicker | nsubj |
| 7 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 quicker | cop |
| 8 | quicker | quick | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 cross | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | imperative | you not said here | the bend | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | bend | quick property | 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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, if you're quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 quick | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 quick | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 quick | nsubj |
| 5 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 quick | cop |
| 6 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | quick property | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, cars can't see you there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 see | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | nsubj |
| 4 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 see | aux |
| 5 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 see | advmod |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 see | obj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 see | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | can | cars | you | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
Option 3
Yes, bends are quiet, nobody drives there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 quiet | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | bends | bend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 quiet | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | cop |
| 5 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 drives | punct |
| 7 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 drives | nsubj |
| 8 | drives | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 quiet | conj |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 drives | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | bends | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drive | present | nobody | there | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yes, at the top of the hill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 top | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 top | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 top | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 top | det |
| 5 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 top | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/everyday/41-crossing-the-road/t11/