Test 15 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars

zebra crossing so cars have to stop, no need to look right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: zebra crossing · What happens: have, stop, look · To what, where: need

This is test 15 · ★ 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	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossing	compound
2	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 have	advmod
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 need	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 need	det
10	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 look	mark
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 need	acl
13	right	right	ADV	_	12 look	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	zebra crossing			tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive	zebra crossing not said here	no need		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality need=Eventuality
3	look	to-infinitive	zebra crossing not said here	no need not said here	right property	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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, if you walk slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 walk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 walk	punct
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	5 walk	mark
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 walk	nsubj
5	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	you					slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Yes, you can walk straight out without looking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 walk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 walk	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 walk	aux
5	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 out	advmod
7	out	out	ADV	_	5 walk	advmod
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 looking	mark
9	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 walk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	can	you					out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	gerund	you not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Yes, unless it is dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 dark	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	6 dark	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dark	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 dark	cop
6	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Always look and wait until cars stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 look	advmod
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wait	cc
4	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 look	conj
5	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 stop	mark
6	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stop	nsubj
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wait	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here	always property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	cars		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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