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Test 4 · Crossing the road

A girl hears no cars, so she crosses without looking. Why is this a mistake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: girl, this · What happens: hear, cross, look, be · To what, where: cars

This is test 4 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 girl hears no cars, so she crosses without looking.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hears	nsubj
3	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 cars	det
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hears	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 crosses	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 crosses	advmod
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 crosses	nsubj
9	crosses	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hears	conj
10	without	without	SCONJ	_	11 looking	mark
11	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 crosses	advcl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hears	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present	a girl	no cars					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus
2	cross	present	girl						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	gerund	girl not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: 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: Why is this a mistake?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	1 Why	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mistake	det
5	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	this					why property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A quiet electric car or a bicycle might be coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 car	det
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 car	amod
3	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 car	amod
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coming	nsubj
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 bicycle	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bicycle	det
7	bicycle	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 car	conj
8	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 coming	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 coming	aux
10	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	might · progressive	a quiet electric car or a bicycle						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Cars always honk before they get close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 honk	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 honk	advmod
3	honk	honk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 get	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 honk	advcl
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 get	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	honk	present	Cars					always property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	present	Cars = car					close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

Cars cannot drive without making a loud noise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 drive	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 drive	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 drive	advmod
4	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	6 making	mark
6	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 drive	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 noise	det
8	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 noise	amod
9	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not drive	can	Cars						vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	make	gerund	Cars not said here	a loud noise					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset noise=Product

Option 4

Hearing is always better than looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hearing	hearing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 better	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 better	advmod
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
5	than	than	SCONJ	_	6 looking	mark
6	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 better	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Hearing					always, good property	tree rules
2	look	gerund	Hearing not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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