Test 16 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars
red man flashing, still loads of time innit
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: red man · What happens: flash · To what, where: loads
This is test 16 · ★ 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 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 man | amod |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flashing | nsubj |
| 3 | flashing | flash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 loads | punct |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 loads | advmod |
| 6 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flashing | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 innit | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 innit | compound |
| 9 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loads | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | gerund | red man | loads of time innit | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent load=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
Cross diagonally to save time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | diagonally | diagonally | ADV | _ | 1 Cross | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 save | mark |
| 4 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Cross | advcl |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 save | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | imperative | you not said here | diagonally property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | to-infinitive | you not said here | time | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Run across, there is loads of time left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | across | across | ADV | _ | 1 Run | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Run | advcl |
| 6 | loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 is | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 loads | nmod |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 time | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | imperative | you not said here | across property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | does | present | loads of time | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | leave | participle | time not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Cross if you are fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 fast | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 fast | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fast | cop |
| 5 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Cross | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | Cross not said here | fast property | tree rules |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Do not start, wait for the next green
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 start | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 start | advmod |
| 3 | start | start | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wait | punct |
| 5 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 start | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 green | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 green | det |
| 8 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 green | amod |
| 9 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wait | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not start | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | wait | infinitive | you not said here | for the next green | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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