Test 9 · ★ · Traffic lights, crossings and parked cars

Which place to cross would a road safety officer choose?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: place · What happens: cross, choose

This is test 9 · ★ 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	DET	PronType=Int	2 place	det
2	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 choose	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 cross	mark
4	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 place	acl
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 choose	aux
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 officer	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 safety	compound
8	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 officer	compound
9	officer	officer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 choose	nsubj
10	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 choose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	to-infinitive	which place not said here						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	choose	would	which place						vn get-13.5.1 «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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Between two parked lorries, as it is quick and short

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Between	between	ADP	_	4 lorries	case
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lorries	nummod
3	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lorries	amod
4	lorries	lorry	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 quick	punct
6	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 quick	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 quick	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 quick	cop
9	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lorries	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 short	cc
11	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 quick	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	park	participle			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	it	quick property	tree rules
3	be				tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A crossing with lights, after checking the traffic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 crossing	det
2	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 lights	case
4	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 crossing	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 checking	punct
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	7 checking	mark
7	checking	check	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 crossing	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 traffic	det
9	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 checking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	check	gerund		the traffic					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traffic=Theme

Option 3

Just round a bend, where it is quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	4 bend	advmod
2	round	round	ADP	_	4 bend	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 bend	det
4	bend	bend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 quiet	punct
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 quiet	advmod
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 quiet	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 quiet	cop
9	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bend	conj

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

Option 4

Where your friends are already crossing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 crossing	advmod
2	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friends	nmod:poss
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 crossing	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 crossing	aux
5	already	already	ADV	_	6 crossing	advmod
6	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross	present · progressive	your friends						vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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