Test 11 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars
green man, can i just go
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: green man · What happens: go
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 42 «Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars» 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 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 man | amod |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 5 | i | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 go | advmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | can | green man | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Look both ways first, cars may be turning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ways | det |
| 3 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Look | obl |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Look | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 turning | punct |
| 6 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 turning | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 turning | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 turning | aux |
| 9 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Look | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | both ways | first property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | turn | may · progressive | cars | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yes, run straight out, the cars all have to stop
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 run | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 5 out | advmod |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cars | det |
| 8 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | nsubj |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 have | advmod |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 run | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stop | mark |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 have | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the cars | all property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | the cars not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
Yes, with your eyes closed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 eyes | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eyes | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 eyes | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 eyes | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close | participle | your eyes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Yes, never look
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 look | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 look | advmod |
| 4 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look | imperative | you 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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