Test 14 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars

light's green for me but this car's turning without slowing

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: car · What happens: slow, turn

This is test 14 · ★ 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	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 green	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 light	case
3	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 green	obl
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 turning	cc
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 car	det
8	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turning	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 car	case
10	turning	turning	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 green	conj
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	12 slowing	mark
12	slowing	slow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 green	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slow	gerund							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	turn		this car						nom turning «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Wait and let it pass, then cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 let	cc
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 let	obj
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 cross	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 cross	advmod
8	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here	it		tree rules
3	pass	infinitive				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cross	infinitive			then	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Run in front of it quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 front	case
3	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 front	nmod
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here			front of front		quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory

Option 3

Walk out, it is your turn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADV	_	1 Walk	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 turn	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turn	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 turn	cop
6	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 turn	nmod:poss
7	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Walk	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk out	imperative	you not said here					out property	vn resign-10.11 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	your turn					tree rules

Option 4

Step out and wave at him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Step	compound:prt
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wave	cc
4	wave	wave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Step	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step out	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wave	present	you not said here					at him = he	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Location

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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