Test 3 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars

Which is true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 true	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

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

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

A green walk signal means it is your turn, not that every car will stop

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 signal	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 signal	amod
3	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signal	compound
4	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turn	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 turn	cop
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 turn	nmod:poss
9	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stop	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 stop	advmod
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 stop	mark
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 car	det
14	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stop	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stop	aux
16	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	a green walk signal		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	signal	your turn	tree rules
3	not stop	future	every car		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

A green walk signal means no car can possibly come anywhere near you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 signal	det
2	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 signal	amod
3	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 signal	compound
4	signal	signal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 come	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 come	aux
9	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	10 come	advmod
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	ccomp
11	anywhere	anywhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 come	advmod
12	near	near	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 come	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a green walk signal						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	can	no car					near you; anywhere, possibly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near you=Location

Option 3

A red hand means cross quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hand	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hand	amod
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cross	cross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 means	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	a red hand	cross				quickly property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cross=Topic

Option 4

Zebra crossings are only for bicycles

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crossings	compound
2	crossings	crossing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bicycles	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bicycles	cop
4	only	only	ADV	_	6 bicycles	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 bicycles	case
6	bicycles	bicycle	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Zebra crossings					for bicycles	tree rules

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