Test 19 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars

Ava's dad reversed over their neighbour's bin and people say he's a terrible driver, pass it on

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad, people · What happens: reverse, say, be, pass on · To what, where: bin, terrible driver, driver · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 19 · ★ 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	Ava	Ava	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dad	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Ava	case
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reversed	nsubj
4	reversed	reverse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	9 bin	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 neighbour	nmod:poss
7	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bin	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 neighbour	case
9	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reversed	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 say	cc
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 reversed	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 driver	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 driver	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 driver	det
16	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 driver	amod
17	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 say	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pass	punct
19	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reversed	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 pass	obj
21	on	on	ADP	_	19 pass	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	reverse	past	Ava's dad		their neighbour's bin	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	say speech: assert	present	people			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	dad	a terrible driver		tree rules
4	pass on	infinitive		driver		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

Pass it on, because it proves it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 proves	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 proves	mark
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 proves	nsubj
7	proves	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	parataxis
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 proves	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	prove	present	it	it					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Pass it on, and say he hit a cat and a bike too, so everyone is warned

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 say	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 say	cc
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hit	nsubj
8	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	ccomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hit	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 bike	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bike	det
13	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hit	conj
14	too	too	ADV	_	8 hit	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 warned	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 warned	advmod
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 warned	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 warned	aux:pass
19	warned	warn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Pass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it	vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hit	past	he	a cat	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cat=Co-Theme
4	warn speech: warn	present · passive		everyone	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 3

Pass it on, so people avoid his car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	on	on	ADP	_	1 Pass	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 avoid	punct
5	so	so	ADV	_	7 avoid	advmod
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 avoid	nsubj
7	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	parataxis
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 car	nmod:poss
9	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass on	imperative	you not said here	it					vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	avoid	present	people	his car					vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent car=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Do not pass it on; it is unkind, and reversing drivers cannot see everything

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pass	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 pass	advmod
3	pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pass	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 pass	compound:prt
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 unkind	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 unkind	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 unkind	cop
9	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pass	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 see	cc
12	reversing	reverse	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 see	csubj
13	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 reversing	obj
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 see	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 see	advmod
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 unkind	parataxis
17	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	16 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not pass on	imperative · do-support	you not said here	it		vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	is	present	it		unkind property	tree rules
3	reverse	gerund		drivers		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent driver=Patient
4	not see	can	reversing	everything		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=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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