Test 13 · Buses, trains and being seen

walking home at night, fluoro or reflective

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: walk

This is test 13 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	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fluoro	csubj
2	home	home	ADV	_	1 walking	advmod
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 night	case
4	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 walking	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fluoro	punct
6	fluoro	fluoro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 reflective	cc
8	reflective	reflective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fluoro	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	gerund					night	home property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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

Reflective, it shines in headlights

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Reflective	reflective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shines	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Reflective	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shines	nsubj
4	shines	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 headlights	case
6	headlights	headlight	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shines	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shine	present	it			headlights			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in headlight=Location

Option 2

Dark clothes are fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 clothes	amod
2	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	4 fine	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fine	cop
4	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

Fluorescent works best at night, it glows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fluorescent	fluorescent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 works	nsubj
2	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	best	well	ADV	Degree=Sup	2 works	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 works	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 glows	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 glows	nsubj
8	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 works	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	Fluorescent				night	well property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	glow	present	it						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Neither matters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	2 matters	nsubj
2	matters	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	matter	present	Neither						vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

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