Test 11 · Buses, trains and being seen
bus coming, stand right at the edge?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: come, stand · To what, where: edge
This is test 11 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 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coming | compound |
| 2 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stand | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | right | right | ADV | _ | 4 stand | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 edge | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 edge | det |
| 8 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stand | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | imperative | you not said here | the edge | right property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at edge=Location |
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
Yes, on the road itself
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 road | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 road | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 5 road | nmod:unmarked |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Yes, lean out to wave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 3 lean | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | lean | lean | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 lean | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 wave | mark |
| 6 | wave | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 lean | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lean out | imperative | you not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | wave | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, so the driver sees you and stops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 sees | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 sees | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 driver | det |
| 5 | driver | driver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sees | nsubj |
| 6 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 sees | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stops | cc |
| 9 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sees | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the driver | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | the driver not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, wait well back till it stops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 3 wait | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 wait | advmod |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 wait | advmod |
| 6 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 stops | mark |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stops | nsubj |
| 8 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 wait | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait back | imperative | you not said here | well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stop | present | it | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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