Test 16 · Buses, trains and being seen

dropped my pencil case under the bus as it's leaving

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: case · What happens: drop, leave · To what, where: pencil case, bus

This is test 16 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	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 case	nmod:poss
3	pencil	pencil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 case	compound
4	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obj
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 bus	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bus	det
7	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropped	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 leaving	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 leaving	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 leaving	aux
11	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 dropped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past		my pencil case		the bus			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent case=Theme under bus=Destination
2	leave	present · progressive	case						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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

Leave it and tell the driver or an adult

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Leave	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 tell	cc
4	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Leave	conj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 driver	det
6	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 adult	cc
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 adult	det
9	adult	adult	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 driver	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here		the driver or a adult				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent driver=Recipient

Option 2

Pick it up from behind the back wheel before it rolls

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Pick	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	8 wheel	case
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	8 wheel	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wheel	det
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wheel	compound
8	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	obl
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 rolls	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rolls	nsubj
11	rolls	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pick	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	imperative	you not said here	it		the back wheel			vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	roll	present	wheel						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Run to the front to get it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 front	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 front	det
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Run	obl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 get	mark
6	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Run	advcl
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	imperative	you not said here					to the front result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to front=Result
2	get	to-infinitive	you not said here	front					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Crawl under to grab it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crawl	crawl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grab	nsubj
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 grab	case
3	to	to	PART	_	4 grab	mark
4	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	to-infinitive	Crawl	it					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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