Test 10 · Buses, trains and being seen
school bus stopped, cross behind it?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: school bus · What happens: stop, cross · To what, where: bus
This is test 10 of lesson 43 «Buses, trains and being seen» 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 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 bus | compound |
| 2 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cross | punct |
| 5 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stopped | xcomp |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 cross | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 stopped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | school bus | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cross | infinitive | school bus not said here | bus | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
No, cross in front where the driver can see you
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 cross | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cross | punct |
| 3 | cross | cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 front | case |
| 5 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cross | nmod |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 see | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 driver | det |
| 8 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cross | acl:relcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | can | the driver | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yes, behind is safest, cars stop for buses anyway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 safest | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 5 safest | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 safest | cop |
| 5 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 stop | punct |
| 7 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stop | nsubj |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 safest | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 buses | case |
| 10 | buses | bus | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 stop | obl |
| 11 | anyway | anyway | ADV | _ | 8 stop | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | behind, safe property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | stop | present | cars | for buses; anyway property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 3
Yes, run behind quickly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 run | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| 5 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 run | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run behind | imperative | you not said here | behind, quickly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Crawl under it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crawl | crawl | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Crawl | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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