Test 9 · Crossing the road

Why does a child need to be extra careful near roads compared with an adult?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: child · What happens: need, be, compare · To what, where: roads

This is test 9 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 need	advmod
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 need	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 child	det
4	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 need	nsubj
5	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	9 careful	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 careful	cop
8	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 careful	amod
9	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 need	xcomp
10	near	near	ADP	_	11 roads	case
11	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 careful	obl
12	compared	compare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 roads	acl
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 adult	case
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 adult	det
15	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 compared	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 need	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	need	present · do-support	a child				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	a child not said here		roads	careful property	tree rules
3	compare	participle		roads not said here		with a adult	vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with adult=Co-Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Children are smaller and harder for drivers to see

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smaller	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 smaller	cop
3	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 harder	cc
5	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 smaller	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 drivers	case
7	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smaller	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 see	mark
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 smaller	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Children	for drivers; small property	tree rules
2	be		Children not said here		tree rules
3	see	to-infinitive	Children not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Cars may drive faster when children are near

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drive	nsubj
2	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drive	aux
3	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 drive	advmod
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 near	advmod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 near	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 near	cop
8	near	near	ADV	_	3 drive	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	may	Cars					fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	is	present	children					near property	tree rules

Option 3

Drivers only look for adults

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 look	advmod
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 adults	case
5	adults	adult	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	Drivers					for adults	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for adult=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Children are not allowed to cross roads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 allowed	nsubj:pass
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 allowed	aux:pass
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 allowed	advmod
4	allowed	allow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 cross	mark
6	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 allowed	xcomp
7	roads	road	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 cross	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not allow	present · passive		Children					vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	cross not said to happen	to-infinitive	Children not said here	roads					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient

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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