Test 18 · Buses, trains and being seen

my brother reckons bright neon clothes make u glow at night so drivers see u

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brother, bright neon clothes, drivers · What happens: reckon, make, glow, see · To what, where: u

This is test 18 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 clothes	amod
5	neon	neon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 clothes	compound
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	ccomp
8	u	u	PART	_	9 glow	mark
9	glow	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 glow	obl
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 see	advmod
13	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 see	nsubj
14	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reckons	advcl
15	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	reckon	present	my brother			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	make	present	bright neon clothes			tree rules
3	glow	infinitive	bright neon clothes not said here		night	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	present	drivers	u		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus

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

He is right, neon and reflective are the same thing, they both light up in the dark

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 neon	punct
5	neon	neon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 right	conj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 reflective	cc
7	reflective	reflective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 thing	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 thing	amod
11	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 light	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 light	nsubj
14	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	15 light	nsubj
15	light	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thing	acl:relcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 light	compound:prt
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 dark	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 dark	det
19	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 light	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	He			right property	tree rules
2	be		He not said here				tree rules
3	is a	present		the right same thing			tree rules
4	light up	present	they	the right same thing not said here	the dark		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Product

Option 2

He is right, neon glows in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 glows	punct
5	neon	neon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glows	nsubj
6	glows	glow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	parataxis
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 dark	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dark	det
9	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 glows	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	glow	present	neon			the dark			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dark=Location

Option 3

He is right, if the clothes are new

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 new	punct
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 new	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 clothes	det
7	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	9 new	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 new	cop
9	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 right	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					right property	tree rules
2	is a condition, not said to happen	present	the clothes					new property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Not true; fluorescent works by day, but at night you need reflective stuff

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 true	advmod
2	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	;	;	PUNCT	_	5 works	punct
4	fluorescent	fluorescent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 works	amod
5	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 true	parataxis
6	by	by	ADP	_	7 day	case
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 works	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 need	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 need	cc
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 need	obl
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 need	nsubj
13	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 true	parataxis
14	reflective	reflective	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stuff	amod
15	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 need	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	present	you	reflective stuff			night		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stuff=Theme
2	work		day						nom work «act intransitive»: by=agent

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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