Test 8 · Buses, trains and being seen

Why should a cyclist riding at dusk, as it gets dark, have a red light at the back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: riding, cyclist riding · What happens: get, have · To what, where: red light, back

This is test 8 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 riding	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 riding	aux
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 riding	det
4	cyclist	cyclist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 riding	compound
5	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	nsubj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 dusk	case
7	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 riding	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gets	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 gets	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gets	nsubj
11	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 have	parataxis
12	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gets	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 light	det
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 light	amod
17	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 back	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 back	det
20	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 light	nmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	riding					dark property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	have	present	a cyclist riding at dusk	a red light		the back			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Patient

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

So drivers coming up behind can see the bike

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	7 see	advmod
2	drivers	driver	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 see	nsubj
3	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 drivers	acl
4	up	up	ADV	_	5 behind	advmod
5	behind	behind	ADV	_	3 coming	advmod
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bike	det
9	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come up	gerund	drivers not said here					behind property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	can	drivers	the bike					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bike=Stimulus

Option 2

So the bike looks like a car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 looks	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bike	det
3	bike	bike	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 car	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the bike					like a car	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

So other cyclists know to stop

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 know	advmod
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cyclists	amod
3	cyclists	cyclist	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 know	nsubj
4	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 stop	mark
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 know	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	other cyclists						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	stop	to-infinitive	other cyclists not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

So the cyclist can see the road behind in the dark

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cyclist	det
3	cyclist	cyclist	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 see	aux
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 road	det
7	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
8	behind	behind	ADV	_	5 see	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 dark	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 dark	det
11	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	can	the cyclist	the road		the dark		behind property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer road=Stimulus

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