Test 13 · Crossing the road

little bro crossing with me, what do i do

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: little bro, i · What happens: cross, do · To what, where: little bro

This is test 13 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	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bro	amod
2	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bro	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 crossing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 do	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 do	obj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 bro	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund	little bro not said here					with me	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	present · do-support	i	little bro					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

Push him across fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Push	push	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Push	obj
3	across	across	ADV	_	1 Push	advmod
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Push	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push	imperative	you not said here	him = he				across, fast property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Hold his hand

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	his hand					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme

Option 3

Let him run ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	run	infinitive	him = he not said here					ahead property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Let him cross alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	3 cross	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	him = he					tree rules
2	cross	infinitive	him = he not said here					alone property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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