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Test 5 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars

A ball rolls into the road between two parked cars. What should a girl do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ball, girl · What happens: roll, park, do · To what, where: road

This is test 5 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: A ball rolls into the road between two parked cars.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ball	det
2	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolls	nsubj
3	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 road	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 road	det
6	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rolls	obl
7	between	between	ADP	_	10 cars	case
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 cars	nummod
9	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 cars	amod
10	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 road	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rolls	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	present	a ball			the road between two parked cars			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into road=Destination
2	park	participle							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

Sentence 2: What should a girl do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 girl	det
4	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	should	a girl						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Step out between the cars to look

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Step	step	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	1 Step	compound:prt
3	between	between	ADP	_	5 cars	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cars	det
5	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Step	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 look	mark
7	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Step	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step out	imperative	you not said here			the cars			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between car=Trajectory
2	look	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Stop, and ask an adult to help get the ball safely

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ask	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 ask	cc
4	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 adult	det
6	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ask	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 help	mark
8	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ask	xcomp
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 help	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 ball	det
11	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
12	safely	safely	ADV	_	9 get	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		a adult				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent adult=Recipient clause=Topic
3	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	get not said to happen	infinitive	you not said here	the ball				safely property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ball=Stimulus

Option 3

Wait for the ball to roll back by itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 ball	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ball	det
4	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 roll	mark
6	roll	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 roll	advmod
8	by	by	ADP	_	9 itself	case
9	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 roll	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here					for the ball	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roll back	to-infinitive	you not said here					by ball	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Trajectory

Option 4

Run after it quickly before a car comes along and squashes it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	after	after	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Run	obl
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 comes	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 comes	nsubj
8	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Run	advcl
9	along	along	ADV	_	8 comes	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 squashes	cc
11	squashes	squash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 comes	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 squashes	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here				after it	quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come along	present	a car					along property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	squash	present	a car not said here	car					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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