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Test 2 · Buses, trains and being seen

A driver in Texas sees a school bus stopped ahead with red lights flashing and the stop arm out. What must he do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: driver, school bus · What happens: see, stop, flash, do

This is test 2 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

Sentence 1: A driver in Texas sees a school bus stopped ahead with red lights flashing and the stop arm out.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 driver	det
2	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sees	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 Texas	case
4	Texas	Texas	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 driver	nmod
5	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bus	det
7	school	school	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bus	compound
8	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stopped	nsubj
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sees	parataxis
10	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	9 stopped	advmod
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 lights	case
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lights	amod
13	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 stopped	obl
14	flashing	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stopped	xcomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 arm	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 arm	det
17	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 arm	compound
18	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flashing	conj
19	out	out	ADV	_	18 arm	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sees	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	present	a driver in Texas						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	stop	past	a school bus					with red lights; ahead property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	flash	gerund	a school bus not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «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.

Sentence 2: What must he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	must	driver						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1

Pass quickly before more children get out of the bus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Pass	advmod
3	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 get	mark
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 children	amod
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 get	nsubj
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Pass	advcl
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 bus	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 bus	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bus	det
10	bus	bus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 get	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	imperative	you not said here					quickly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get out	present	more children	the bus					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Stop and wait until the lights stop flashing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 wait	cc
3	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	7 stop	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lights	det
6	lights	light	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stop	nsubj
7	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 wait	advcl
8	flashing	flash	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	wait	infinitive	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stop	present	the lights						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	flash	gerund	the lights not said here						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Pass it slowly on the left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pass	pass	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pass	obj
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Pass	advmod
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 left	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 left	det
6	left	left	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pass	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	imperative	you not said here	it		the left		slowly property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on left=Destination

Option 4

Honk so the children hurry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Honk	honk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 hurry	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 children	det
4	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hurry	nsubj
5	hurry	hurry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Honk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurry	present	the children						vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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