Test 16 · ★★ · Riding a bike or a scooter safely

riding past parked cars, how close?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: ride, park · To what, where: parked cars

This is test 16 · ★★ of lesson 5 «Riding a bike or a scooter safely» 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	riding	ride	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 close	csubj
2	past	past	ADP	_	4 cars	case
3	parked	park	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cars	amod
4	cars	car	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 riding	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 close	punct
6	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 close	advmod
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 close	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	gerund				parked cars			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent past car=Trajectory
2	park	participle							vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Ride faster so the doors cannot catch you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ride	ride	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	1 Ride	advmod
3	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 catch	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 doors	det
5	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 catch	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 catch	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 catch	advmod
8	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ride	advcl
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	imperative	you not said here					fast property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	not catch	can	the doors	you					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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

Leave space, a door could open in front of you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Leave	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 open	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 door	det
5	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 open	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 open	aux
7	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Leave	parataxis
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 open	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 front	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	space					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent space=Theme
2	open	could	a door			front of you			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Location

Option 3

It does not matter how close

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 matter	nsubj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 matter	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 matter	advmod
4	matter	matter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 close	advmod
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 matter	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not matter	present · do-support	It					close property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

Ride right next to them to stay out of traffic

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ride	ride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 next	nsubj
2	right	right	ADV	_	3 next	advmod
3	next	next	ADV	_	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 next	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stay	mark
7	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 next	advcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	10 traffic	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 traffic	case
10	traffic	traffic	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stay	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay out	to-infinitive		traffic					vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme traffic=Location

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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