Test 17 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars

heard a boy ran out between parked cars for his ball and a van just missed him, the driver went mental

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, van, driver · What happens: hear, run out, park, miss, go · To what, where: parked cars, boy

This is test 17 · ★ 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	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	between	between	ADP	_	8 cars	case
7	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 cars	amod
8	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 ball	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ball	nmod:poss
11	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 missed	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 van	det
14	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 missed	nsubj
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 missed	advmod
16	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 missed	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 went	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 driver	det
20	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ran	conj
22	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	past	a boy not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	run out	past	a boy		parked cars	for boy's ball	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between car=Trajectory
3	park	participle					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	miss	past	a van	boy			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	go	past	the driver			mental property	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

Real lesson: vans are more dangerous than cars and should be banned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 dangerous	punct
4	vans	van	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dangerous	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dangerous	cop
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 dangerous	advmod
7	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	acl
8	than	than	ADP	_	9 cars	case
9	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 dangerous	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 banned	cc
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 banned	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 banned	aux:pass
13	banned	ban	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 dangerous	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	vans	Real lesson not said here				than cars; dangerous property	tree rules
2	ban	should · passive	vans not said here						vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»

Option 2

It proves balls should never be played with

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 proves	nsubj
2	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 played	advcl
3	balls	ball	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 proves	obj
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 played	aux
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	7 played	advmod
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 played	aux:pass
7	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	7 played	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	present	It	balls					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ball=Theme
2	not play	should · passive							vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Real lesson: drivers cannot see you between parked cars, so do not cross there

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lesson	amod
2	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 see	punct
4	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 lesson	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 see	obj
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 cars	case
10	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 cars	amod
11	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cross	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 cross	advmod
14	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 cross	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 cross	advmod
16	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 see	conj
17	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 cross	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not see	can	drivers	you		between parked cars	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
2	park	participle					vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not cross	infinitive · do-support	drivers not said here		there		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

It is gossip, so parked cars do not matter at all when you cross

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gossip	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 gossip	cop
3	gossip	gossip	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 matter	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	10 matter	advmod
6	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 cars	amod
7	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 matter	nsubj
8	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 matter	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 matter	advmod
10	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 gossip	parataxis
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 matter	obl
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 cross	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 cross	nsubj
15	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 matter	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present	It	gossip		tree rules
2	park	participle				vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not matter	present · do-support	parked cars		all	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
4	cross	present	you			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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