Test 14 · Crossing the road

ball rolled into the road, quick before it goes far

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ball · What happens: roll, go · To what, where: ball, road

This is test 14 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	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 goes	nsubj
2	rolled	roll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 ball	acl
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rolled	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 goes	punct
7	quick	quick	ADV	_	10 goes	advmod
8	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 goes	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 goes	nsubj
10	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 goes	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	participle		ball not said here		the road			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination
2	go	present	ball					far, quick property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

Dash out then look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dash	dash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Dash	advmod
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 look	advmod
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Dash	xcomp

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

Option 2

Run if no car is close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 close	mark
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 close	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 close	cop
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Run	advcl

#	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	is a condition, not said to happen	present	no car					close property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Stop at the kerb, let it go or ask an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 kerb	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kerb	det
4	kerb	kerb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 let	punct
6	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 let	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 ask	cc
10	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 adult	det
12	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ask	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here			the kerb	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at kerb=Location
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	kerb			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	kerb not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		a adult		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Run after it fast before it rolls too far away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Run	obl
4	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Run	advmod
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	7 rolls	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rolls	nsubj
7	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	advcl
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 away	advmod
10	away	away	ADV	_	7 rolls	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here				after it	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roll	present	it					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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