Test 15 · Buses, trains and being seen

mates are taking a shortcut over the train tracks

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mates · What happens: take · To what, where: shortcut, train tracks

This is test 15 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	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taking	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 taking	aux
3	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shortcut	det
5	shortcut	shortcut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taking	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 tracks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tracks	det
8	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tracks	compound
9	tracks	track	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 taking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	present · progressive	mates	a shortcut		the train tracks			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shortcut=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

Go if you listen first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 listen	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 listen	nsubj
4	listen	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	advcl
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 listen	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	listen a condition, not said to happen	present	you					first property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Go if you run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	4 run	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 run	nsubj
4	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Go	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run a condition, not said to happen	present	you						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Say no and use the bridge or crossing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	1 Say	discourse
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 use	cc
4	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Say	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 use	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 crossing	cc
8	crossing	crossing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bridge	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	use	infinitive	you not said here	the bridge or crossing					vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient

Option 4

Go if you cannot see or hear a train coming

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 see	mark
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 see	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 see	advmod
6	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	advcl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 hear	cc
8	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 see	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 train	det
10	train	train	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hear	obj
11	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 train	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not see a condition, not said to happen	can	you		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	hear	infinitive	you not said here	a train	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer train=Stimulus
4	come	gerund	a train not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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