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Test 2 · Crossing the road

A boy in Dublin looks left, sees nothing, and steps out without looking right. What could happen?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy · What happens: look, see, step out, happen · To what, where: nothing

This is test 2 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 boy in Dublin looks left, sees nothing, and steps out without looking right.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looks	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Dublin	case
4	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
5	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	left	left	ADV	_	5 looks	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sees	punct
8	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 looks	conj
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 sees	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 steps	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 steps	cc
12	steps	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 looks	conj
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 steps	compound:prt
14	without	without	SCONJ	_	15 looking	mark
15	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 steps	advcl
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 looking	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looks	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	a boy in Dublin					left property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	see	present	a boy in Dublin not said here	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
3	step out	present	a boy in Dublin not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	look	gerund	a boy in Dublin not said here					right property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 could happen?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happen	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 happen	aux
3	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	could							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Only bicycles come from the right in Dublin

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Only	only	ADV	_	2 bicycles	advmod
2	bicycles	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 right	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 right	det
6	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Dublin	case
8	Dublin	Dublin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 right	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	bicycles			the right in Dublin			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial_Location

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

A car in the nearest lane, coming from his right, could hit him

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 car	det
2	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hit	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 lane	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lane	det
5	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 lane	amod
6	lane	lane	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 car	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 coming	punct
8	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 lane	acl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 right	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 right	nmod:poss
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coming	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 car	punct
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 hit	aux
14	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 hit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	gerund	the nearest lane not said here			his right			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from right=Initial_Location
2	hit	could	a car in the nearest lane	him = he					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme

Option 3

Cars from the right always stop for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
2	from	from	ADP	_	4 right	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 right	det
4	right	right	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cars	nmod
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 stop	advmod
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 him	case
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Cars from the right					for him = he; always property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Nothing, the nearest cars come from his left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 come	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nothing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cars	det
4	nearest	near	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 cars	amod
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 left	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 left	nmod:poss
9	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Nothing			his left			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from left=Initial_Location

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