Test 7 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars
A family car is backing out of a driveway. Where is the most dangerous place for a small child to stand?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: family car, dangerous place · What happens: back out, be, stand · To what, where: driveway
This is test 7 · ★ 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 family car is backing out of a driveway.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 car | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 car | compound |
| 3 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 backing | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 backing | aux |
| 5 | backing | back | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 driveway | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 driveway | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 driveway | det |
| 9 | driveway | driveway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 backing | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 backing | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back out | present · progressive | a family car | a driveway | 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.
Sentence 2: Where is the most dangerous place for a small child to stand?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 dangerous | advmod |
| 5 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 place | amod |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 child | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 child | det |
| 9 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 child | amod |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 place | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 stand | mark |
| 12 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 place | acl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the dangerous place for a small child | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | the dangerous place for a small child not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Next to an adult on the lawn
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 adult | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 adult | det |
| 4 | adult | adult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Next | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 lawn | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lawn | det |
| 7 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adult | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Inside the house by the window
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inside | inside | ADP | _ | 3 house | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 house | det |
| 3 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 window | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 window | det |
| 6 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 house | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
On the porch by the door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 porch | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 porch | det |
| 3 | porch | porch | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 door | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 door | det |
| 6 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 porch | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Right behind the car
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | ADV | _ | 4 car | advmod |
| 2 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 4 car | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 car | det |
| 4 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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