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Test 3 · ★★ · Weather emergencies

A road ahead is covered by flowing water that looks only a little deep. What should the driver do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flowing water, driver · What happens: cover, flow, look, do · To what, where: road

This is test 3 · ★★ of lesson 48 «Weather emergencies» 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 road ahead is covered by flowing water that looks only a little deep.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 road	det
2	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	nsubj:pass
3	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	2 road	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 covered	aux:pass
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 water	amod
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 looks	nsubj
10	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 water	acl:relcl
11	only	only	ADV	_	14 deep	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 little	det
13	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 deep	obl:unmarked
14	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 looks	xcomp
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 covered	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cover	present · passive	flowing water	a road					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Destination
2	flow	gerund							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	look	present	flowing water					deep property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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.

Sentence 2: What should the driver do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 driver	det
4	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

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

The options

Option 1

Walk through it to test the depth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	through	through	SCONJ	_	5 test	mark
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 test	nsubj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 test	mark
5	test	test	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Walk	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 depth	det
7	depth	depth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	test	to-infinitive	it	the depth					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent depth=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Drive slowly through the very middle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 Drive	advmod
3	through	through	ADP	_	6 middle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 middle	advmod
6	middle	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Drive	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	imperative	you not said here			the middle		slowly property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through middle=Trajectory

Option 3

Drive through quickly before it rises

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	through	through	ADV	_	1 Drive	advmod
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Drive	advmod
4	before	before	SCONJ	_	6 rises	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 rises	nsubj
6	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Drive	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive	imperative	you not said here					quickly, through property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	rise	present	it						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Turn around and find another way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	around	around	ADV	_	1 Turn	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 find	cc
4	find	find	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Turn	conj
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn around	imperative	you not said here					around property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	find	infinitive	you not said here	another way					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic

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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