Test 3 · Buses, trains and being seen
A boy in Brisbane walks home from a friend's house after dark along a road with no footpath. What helps most?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy · What happens: walk, help · To what, where: house
This is test 3 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 boy in Brisbane walks home from a friend's house after dark along a road with no footpath.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walks | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Brisbane | case |
| 4 | Brisbane | Brisbane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 5 | walks | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 5 walks | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 friend | det |
| 9 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 friend | case |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walks | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 dark | case |
| 13 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 walks | obl |
| 14 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 road | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 road | det |
| 16 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 walks | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 footpath | case |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 footpath | det |
| 19 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 road | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 walks | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | a boy in Brisbane | a friend's house | after dark | along a road with no footpath; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from house=Trajectory |
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 helps most?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 helps | nsubj |
| 2 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 2 helps | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 helps | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
The options
Option 1
Running so that he is home sooner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 is | csubj |
| 2 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 4 he | case |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 2 so | fixed |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Running | obl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 sooner | advmod |
| 7 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 is | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | so he | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | present | Running | soon property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Walking facing the traffic, wearing something reflective
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | facing | face | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Walking | conj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 traffic | det |
| 4 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 facing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wearing | punct |
| 6 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Walking | conj |
| 7 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 wearing | obj |
| 8 | reflective | reflective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 something | amod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | face | gerund | the traffic | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme traffic=Destination | |||||
| 3 | wear | gerund | something | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent something=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Walking with his back to the traffic, in dark clothes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 back | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 back | nmod:poss |
| 4 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 traffic | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 traffic | det |
| 7 | traffic | traffic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clothes | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 clothes | case |
| 10 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clothes | amod |
| 11 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 1 Walking | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | dark clothes | with his back; to the traffic result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to traffic=Result |
Option 4
Walking in the middle of the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 middle | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 middle | det |
| 4 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Walking | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 middle | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | the middle of the road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Trajectory |
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